According to Reuters, released secret US documents indicate that up to 354,000 Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the start of the full-scale invasion.

As Reuters reports, the documents claim that 15,500-17,500 Ukrainian soldiers died during the hostilities, and 109,000-113,500 were wounded.

According to Reuters, 35,500-43,000 Russian soldiers were killed and 154,000-180,000 wounded.

Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian military provided clear information about the number of dead.

According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24 last year, Russia has lost 180,050 soldiers in Ukraine.

Documents cited by Reuters also suggest that US intelligence believes the war could drag on beyond 2023, given that both Ukrainian and Russian forces are considered to have “moderate” combat resilience.

According to open-source intelligence analysts, The Guardian reports that highly classified Pentagon information was first leaked in player chats hosted on Discord during the Ukraine war controversy.

After the leak, the Pentagon announced that it had launched an investigation into the source of the leak.

Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov spoke about the leaks on Wednesday during a visit to Spain, admitting that they contained a “mixture” of true and false information. However, according to Reznikov, the true information is already outdated.

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Will the information affect Ukraine, and Kyiv downplays the effect of the information leak?

The greatest attention was paid to documents related to Ukraine. While Ukrainian officials tried to downplay the content, suggesting it might be disinformation and emphasizing that it did not contain specific battle plans for its spring offensive, the material generally reflected what many had suspected: that Ukrainian casualties could be higher, than recognized, and that Kyiv is using munitions for various systems at sometimes exhausting rates, raising the question of how long it will last.

Ukraine was forced to change some of its military plans after the leak of classified Pentagon documents, a source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi told CNN.

However, the adviser to the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak believes that the documents “have nothing to do with the real plans of Ukraine” and are based on “a large amount of fabricated information” spread by Russia.

The leak of secret documents detailing secret US and NATO plans to aid Kiev appears to be a disinformation operation by Russia to sow doubts about a planned counteroffensive against Ukraine, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, said on Friday, Reuters reported.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), Oleksiy Danilov, who said last week that no more than five people know where and when the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin, claims that part of the information in the Pentagon Papers leaked to the Internet “is completely were not secret”