The US Federal Police (FBI) discovered during searches conducted at the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida, a document that describes the military defense of a foreign government.
The document was found at the former Republican president’s residence and private club in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, in the heart of Florida’s Atlantic coast, in August, the Washington Post reported, citing sources. people close to the job.
For the newspaper, the discovery confirms the fears that existed in the US news services about classified materials that were allegedly hidden on the territory of Trump.
Some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations that were not known to, in particular, by many of the country’s top national security officials.
Only the president, certain members of his cabinet, or an official close to that body could allow other government officials access to the details of these secret programs, according to the same sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Documents on these top-secret operations require special permits, and some of them were accessible to a limited circle of people, kept under lock and key, often in a secure, segregated information center and with a control officer assigned to monitor their whereabouts.
However, these documents were kept in Mar-a-Lago.”with undetermined collateral over 18 months“, after Trump left the White House, the Washington Post emphasizes.
After months of trying, according to government court documents, The FBI discovered more than 300 confidential documents in Mar-a-Lago this year: 184 in a set of 15 boxes sent to the National Archives and Records Administration in January, 38 more delivered by Trump’s lawyer to investigators in June, and more than 100 additional documents found in court. search approved on 8 August.
According to the sources, it was in this last batch of government secrets that information about the readiness of a foreign government for nuclear defense was found.
The sources did not name the foreign government in question, did not say where the document was found in Mar-a-Lago, and did not provide additional details about one of the most classified national security investigations ever conducted by the Justice Department.
The Washington Post recalled that it had previously reported that the FBI agents who searched Trump’s house were looking, in particular, for confidential documents related to nuclear weapons.
After the information was made public, Trump compared it on social media to a series of previous investigations by US authorities into his conduct.
“The issue of nuclear weapons is a hoax, just like Russia, Russia was a hoax, the two impeachments were a hoax, the Mueller investigation was a hoax and much more. The same despicable people are involved,” Trump wrote, later suggesting that FBI agents may have planted evidence against him.
The US government has repeatedly demanded that Trump, if he took confidential documents from the White House, deliver them, but the former president’s team responded evasively.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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