The UK on Tuesday downplayed the impact of Internet leaks of top-secret US intelligence documents, saying some of the information that circulates from them is false and it is manipulated without offering concrete examples.

A 21-year-old male member of the US Air National Guard has been charged with Top-secret military intelligence documents leaked to the networkwas arrested last week and charged with illegal copying and transfer of classified material.

Leaks are considered the most serious security breach in the United States since they appeared in 2010 on a website Wikileaks over 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables.

However, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told reporters in Washington that marked inaccuracies in his review of published information. He urged the public to be skeptical of the leaked material.

“I will not comment on the specific part of the leak, but I have seen a number of inaccuracies in our media, significant inaccuracies or manipulation of informationWallace said. “My advice is not to take it literally.”

He added that the leak didn’t hurt at all relations with the US and will not strengthen Russia and will not weaken Ukraine in their conflict.

Reuters has looked into some of the leaked documents, including a document that claimed the UK, US and other countries special operations forces operating on the territory of Ukraine.

Pentagon says US troops in Ukraine they work from the embassy and help track US arms shipments to Kyiv to help protect it from invading Russian troops.

The Washington Post reported on a leaked assessment by the U.S. Department of Defense Intelligence Agency that it said received that 2023 will end without any breakthrough on the battlefield in Ukraine for either side.

Without commenting on the documents themselves, Wallace expressed confidence in the combat situation in Ukraine, downplayed the idea of ​​a dead end and rejected any characterization of the war as a “frozen conflict”.