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What Next: War in Ukraine: The View Behind Closed Doors

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What a slew of documents leaked via Discord reveal about Ukraine’s war against Russia—both from Ukraine’s and Washington’s perspectives. Guest: Shane Harris, senior national security writer at the Washington Post If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Make an impact this Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to fund APIA Scholars. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.7

This episode covers developments in the war in Ukraine and will briefly include the sound

0:31.0

of gunfire.

0:37.9

Shane Harris, who reports on military intelligence over the Washington Post, traffic in confidential

0:43.7

information, memos, power points, reports, and over the last few weeks, he's been sorting

0:50.0

through a mother load of them.

0:52.9

Yes, I mean, I can pull them up on my computer and yeah, there's just like PDFs everywhere.

0:58.9

It all started with that discord leak a few weeks back.

1:02.5

This morning, a bombshell report is revealing details about the leak of what appears to be

1:07.4

highly classified US military documents.

1:10.1

The Pentagon is doing damage control after someone leaked dozens of classified documents

1:14.5

about the war in Ukraine.

1:15.8

All of this coming out as Ukraine battles Russian forces in Bakhmut and as it prepares

1:21.0

for a new counteroffensive, you as a visual scientist.

1:24.2

For Shane, this initial information dump, it was just the beginning.

1:29.2

From these discord leaks, there were an initial tranche of around 50 or so, depending on

1:35.0

how you count it, documents that did show up on the broader internet.

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