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Ukraine war: Who leaked top secret US documents - and why? - BBC News Tuesday April 25 th , 2023  at  1:57 PM BBC News - Home 1 Share By Paul Adams BBC Diplomatic Correspondent What to make of the dozens of classified US Defence Department documents - maps, charts and photographs - now circulating on the internet? Complete with timelines and dozens of impenetrable military acronyms, the documents, some of them marked "top secret", paint a detailed picture of the war in Ukraine. They tell of the casualties suffered on both sides, the military vulnerabilities of each and, crucially, what their relative strengths are likely to be when Ukraine decides to launch its much-anticipated  spring offensive . How real are these printed pages, unfolded and photographed, possibly on someone's dining room table? And what do they tell us, or the Kremlin, that we did not already know? First things first: this is the biggest leak of secret American information on the war in Ukraine since R