The United States has no evidence that Egypt gave weapons to Russia

The government of USA He affirmed this Tuesday that he has no evidence that Egypt have given arms to Russia and reaffirmed its alliance with that country, despite the fact that documents leaked to The Washington Post reveal that Egypt planned to give rockets to Russia.

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“We have no evidence that Egypt provided lethal weapons to Russia”said John Kirbyone of the spokesmen for the White Housein statements to the press aboard the presidential plane Air Force One.

In this way, he tried to make it clear that no arms transfer has taken place, but he neither confirmed nor denied that Egypt have been planning to send weapons to Russiaas reported on Monday The Washington Post.

“Egypt It is an important ally in security matters and continues to be so”stressed the spokesman.

The Washington Post accessed a series of secret documents that were published in March on the social platform discord and in which it is supposedly revealed that the president of Egypt, abdelfatah al Sisi ordered his government officials to produce more than 40,000 rockets to send to Russia, which invaded Ukraine more than a year ago.

An Egyptian source denied this information on Tuesday through the Egyptian television channel. Al Qahera Newswhile Russia crossed out “hoaxthose reports.

In recent days, it has been leaked to the media in USA military and intelligence documents reveal hitherto unknown details of the foreign policy of the Government of Joe Biden.

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However, as reported by the White Housesome of those documents are manipulated and could be part of a disinformation campaign.

Most of the leaked documents are related to the war in Ukraine and give details about the plans USA and the NATO to reinforce the Ukrainian offensive.

In addition, the information indicates that Washington it could have been spying on some of its closest allies, such as Ukraine itself, South Korea and Israel.

Faced with the possibility that the documents could create tensions with their allies, USA has been in contact with them for the past several days, according to the White House.

In addition, the Administration of Biden is doing everything possible to identify the leak source, but hasn’t been able to do it yet and he does not know if there will be more leaks.

The rain of leaks It started last Friday, continued through the weekend, and has continued this week.

The impact it will have is still unknown, but it could be the most serious since 2013, when the former analyst Edward Snowden exposed the scope of the mass espionage programs that USA launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Source: Elcomercio

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