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11 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of Egypt, Abdelfatá al Sisi, ordered the manufacture of about 40,000 missiles to be sent to Russia as part of the war against Ukraine, according to leaked documents from the US Intelligence Services, according to the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’ .
According to this medium, in some of the leaked documents, dated February 17, they summarize alleged conversations between the Egyptian president and senior officials of his Army, whom he asks to keep the production and shipment of weapons secret “to avoid problems with the West”.
In the document, the president talks to someone named Salah al Din – who ‘The Washington Post’ suggests could be Mohamed Salah al Din, secretary of state for military production – who suggests that the employees will work overtime if necessary. necessary, since “it is the least we could do for the previous aid from Russia”, without specifying what aid they are referring to.
The military also alleged that “the Russians will buy whatever” in terms of arms and ammunition, always according to the aforementioned newspaper.
Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, responded to questions from the American newspaper, alleging that “Egypt’s position from the beginning is non-intervention (…) to maintain an equal distance from both sides.”
On the other hand, a US official consulted by the media, has explained –as an anonymous source– that his country is not aware that these arms supply plans were fulfilled.
The United States Department of Defense has acknowledged that the recent leak of documents with “highly confidential and classified” information poses “a very serious risk to national security”, although it has not yet commented on the information from ‘The Washington Post’.
The documents apparently remained on Discord, a messaging service that doubles as a social network, from January until early March, when a user posted dozens of them to a group with a larger number of members.
Since then, at least a dozen files have been disseminated through other channels. An edited version of one of these documents surfaced last week via the Russian messaging app Telegram.
The documents detail the US assessment of the war in Ukraine and include plans to reinforce the Ukrainian military for a counteroffensive, as well as data on the state of Russian forces. It also includes sensitive material about Canada, China, Israel or South Korea.
