"I did not receive any information from the White House or the Pentagon beforehand," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview published Tuesday, May 2 by The Washington Post. The Ukrainian president thus claims to have learned in the press of the existence of a leak of confidential American documents concerning his country's war against Russia. Asked on CNN, Pentagon spokesman Gen. Pat Ryder said he "cannot say whether this is true or not."
Classified US documents, released to the press in early April as a result of online leaks, detail Washington's views on the war in Ukraine, including the worrying state of Ukraine's air defenses as of late February. The young American serviceman arrested for spreading this information was charged on April 14.
"For us, anything that informs our enemy in advance is somehow a disadvantage," Volodymyr Zelensky also told The Washington Post.
This episode "is not good for the reputation of the White House, and I think it is not good for the reputation of the United States," he said on a daily basis, comparing the leaks to " a TV series ".
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