The US government said on Tuesday that has no evidence that Egypt gave weapons to Russia and confirmed their union with this country, despite the fact that some documents were leaked to Washington Post to show that Egypt planned to transfer missiles to Russia.

“We have no evidence that Egypt has provided Russia with lethal weapons,” White House Press Secretary John Kirby said, speaking to the press aboard the presidential plane. Board number one.

In this way, he tried to make it clear that there was no transfer of weapons, but did not confirm or deny that Egypt planned to send weapons to Russiaas reported on Monday Washington Post.

“Egypt is and remains an important security ally,” the spokesman said.

Washington Post agreed on a series secret documents which were published in March on the social platform discord and which allegedly reveals that Egyptian President Abdelfatah al-Sisi ordered his government officials to produce more 40 thousand missiles will be sent to Russiawho invaded Ukraine over a year ago.

An Egyptian source denied this information on Tuesday through an Egyptian TV channel. Al Kahera News, while Russia called the reports a “hoax”.

In recent days, information about this has been leaked to the American media. military and intelligence documents which reveal hitherto unknown details of the foreign policy of the Joe Biden government.

However, as the White House has warned, some of these documents they are being manipulated and they may be part of a disinformation campaign.