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How did the world learn about the US plans to help Ukraine fend off a Russian invasion in 2023?

A major leak of classified US documents that exposed details of its intelligence gathering started in a chatroom on a social media platform popular with gamers called Discord. An anonymous poster shared the classified documents, first typing them out, then posting images of papers. The posts appear to have gone unnoticed until they began circulating on social media and were picked up by major news outlets._x000D_startling and timely details of US and NATO assistance to Ukraine and efforts to assist Ukraine in its war with Russia, including an anticipated spring offensive. By April 11, 2023, the Pentagon claimed some of the leaked documents had been doctored. The Associated Press interviewed a chat group member in which documents appeared for several months. He said the person who uploaded the documents did not appear driven by ideology. He also said he had copies of hundreds of pages of files and would leak them all if the original poster was arrested.