Pentagon documents reveal that Egypt planned to supply missiles to Russia

The President of Egypt, Abdelfatá al Sisi, ordered the production of approx Send 40,000 missiles to Russia in the frame war against Ukraineaccording to leaked US intelligence documents, the newspaper said The Washington Post.

According to this media outlet, some of the leaked documents, dated February 17, summarize alleged conversations between the Egyptian president and high-ranking officials of his army, whom he asks to keep the production and delivery of weapons secret “to avoid problems with the West.” .” In the document, the president is talking to someone named Salah al-Din – who The Washington Post suggests it could be Mohamed Salah al Din, the secretary of state for military production – who suggests employees will work overtime if necessary, as “It’s the least we could do for Russia’s earlier help,” without specifying what kind of aid it is. The military would also claim that “the Russians will buy anything” in terms of weapons and ammunition, always according to the aforementioned newspaper.

Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded to questions from the American newspaper stating that “Egypt’s position from the beginning is non-intervention (…) maintain an equal distance on both sides».

On the other hand, an American official consulted by the media explained – as an anonymous source – that his country is not aware that these plans for the acquisition of weapons have been fulfilled.

The United States Department of Defense has acknowledged that the recent leak of documents containing “highly classified and classified” information poses a “very serious risk to national security,” although it has yet to comment on the information from The Washington Post.

The documents were apparently left inside strifea messaging service that also serves as a social network, from January to early March, when the user posted dozens of messages in a group with a larger number of members.

Since then, at least a dozen files have been distributed through other channels. A redacted version of one of these documents surfaced last week via the Russian messaging app Telegram.

The documents describe in detail American assessment of the war in Ukraine and include plans to reinforce the Ukrainian army for a counter-offensive, as well as information on the state of Russian forces. It also includes sensitive material about Canada, China, Israel or South Korea.