The Defense Department is reviewing a handful of documents released on various social media sites that appear to detail US and NATO aid to Ukraine, but may have been altered or used as part of a misinformation campaign.

The documents, posted on sites like Twitter, have been labeled classified and resemble routine updates that the Joint Staff of the US Army would produce on a daily basis but would not publicly distribute. They are dated

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to be details of the progress of arms and equipment entering Ukraine with more precise timelines and quantities than the US generally publicly provides.

They are not war plans and they give no details of a planned offensive in Ukraine. And some inaccuracies, including estimates of Russian troops

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Deaths significantly lower than numbers publicly reported by US officials have led some to question the authenticity of the documents.

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It is very important to remember that in recent decades, Russian special services have carried out most of their successful operations in Photoshop,” Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence, told Ukrainian TV. Preliminary analysis of these materials shows that we are seeing false, biased numbers of losses on both sides, with some of the information taken from open sources.

Separately, however, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk

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Y’s office released a statement on Friday about a meeting he had with his senior military staff, noting that participants in the meeting focused on measures to prevent the leakage of information about the plans of Ukraine’s armed forces.

However, if the published documents are authentic to some degree, the leak of classified data is disturbing and raises questions about what other information about the war in Ukraine or an upcoming offensive could be spread. US officials did not clarify the origin of the documents, their authenticity, on Friday

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or who was actually the first to post them online.

The New York Times was the first to report on the documents.

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Sabrina Singh, a spokesman for the Pentagon, would only say that we are aware of the reports of social media posts and the

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apartment is looking at the case.

A US official said the documents resemble data produced daily by the Joint Staff, although some figures are incorrect. Even if they were legitimate, the official said, the US believes the documents have little real intelligence value, as much of them are information Russia would already know or could collect from the battlefield. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence documents.

The maps and charts detail battlefield status for both sides as of a month ago, U.S. military movements over the past 24 hours, personnel numbers, and local weather forecasts.

But there are mistakes. Under a section titled Total Assessed Losses, a document lists 16,000-17,500 Russian casualties and up to 71,000 Ukrainian casualties. General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said publicly last November that Russia has lost more than 100,000 soldiers, and Ukraine has lost about that much. And those estimates have continued to rise in recent months, though officials have stopped providing more exact numbers.