Source: Washington Post
“In late January, with his mercenary forces dying by the thousands in a fight for the ruined city of Bakhmut, Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine an extraordinary offer. Prigozhin said that if Ukraine’s commanders withdrew their soldiers from the area around Bakhmut, he would give Kyiv information on Russian troop positions, which Ukraine could use to attack them. Prigozhin conveyed the proposal to his contacts in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, with whom he has maintained secret communications during the course of the war, according to previously unreported U.S. intelligence documents leaked on the group-chat platform Discord.” [editor’s note: Sounds unlikely, and raises the question of whether perhaps the “leaked” documents were stuffed with disinformation from the git-go, or whether WaPo is working knowingly directly as a US regime disinfo outlet – TLK] (05/14/23)