According to a leaked Pentagon document, special forces from multiple Western countries operate in Ukraine.
A classified document dated March 23 shows that NATO has 97 special forces personnel in Ukraine, with the United Kingdom having the largest contingent at 50. The United States has 14.
The document doesn't say where the units are stationed or what they are doing.
The BBC reported the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence attempted to discredit the integrity of the leak, saying they had displayed a “serious level of inaccuracy.” The department didn't explain if it was referring to a specific document.
U.S. officials have said the documents are real as authorities search for the source of the leak.
Following the revelations, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told Fox News that U.S. special forces are stationed at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv:
“I won't talk to the specifics of numbers and that kind of thing. But to get to your exact question, there is a small U.S. military presence at the embassy in conjunction with the Defense Attachés office to help us work on accountability of the material that is going in and out of Ukraine,” Kirby said, referencing the weapons and other support the U.S. has been sending to Kyiv. “So they're attached to that embassy and to that the defense attache.”
Kirby, who was speaking on the sidelines of President Biden's trip to Northern Ireland, added that those troops “are not fighting on the battlefield.” In addition, Fox News is told that the U.S. forces in Kyiv also provide security services.
“There has been no change to the president's mandate that there will not be American troops in Ukraine fighting in this war,” Kirby said.
The Pentagon in November confirmed that U.S. forces were on the ground to inspect American military aid deliveries in Ukraine.
Other leaked documents reveal fears Moscow's drone strikes have strained Ukraine's air defense system and pessimism that Russia can be defeated anytime soon.
READ NEXT: Leaked Docs Suggest Ukrainian Air Defense At Risk – Pentagon Scrambles To Find Source
Gee, hope the Russia don’t find out
I believe Kirby like all democratic idiots can’t tell the truth if his life depended on it. His job is to cover up for the top corrupt idiots in his party, ie Biden to name a top idiot. To believe in a democrat you have to be brain washed into thinking they are mightier than God. Hope people wake up soon! Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness but to democrats in power it is following the Nazi/Cmmunist docterine….isn’t that right Soros! You pay enough to the democratic leadership and they owe you and still line their pockets.
Now we have forces in Ukraine
Anyone remembers how we got INVOLVED in Vietnam?
Not a small step, but a giant leap for the Biden administration to get the US into WWIII.
Well it’s been proven it’s lord-ship biden and cronies lie, like rotten wood, IT WONT HAPPEN ever! HA!
The leaked documents say US and Western Special Forces are fighting the Russians in Ukraine. The US Government seems intent on ruining a young man’s life for leaking them. Tucker and MTG get attacked for reporting on this but how can we not believe it to be true when our Government lies to us about so much.