Classified documents found at UK bus stop: june 2021

 

over 50 pages of classified documents

from the uk 's defence ministry have

reportedly been found at a bus stop in

southern england

with notes in them about the NATO

withdrawal from afghanistan

u.s president joe biden 's china strategy

and discussion over how russia would

react to the british warship that sailed

near crimea last week

sparking an incident with russian forces

that's

the papers are said to have been found

by a member of the public in a soggy

heap on tuesday

a day before the warship incident russia

said on wednesday it had fired warning

shots and dropped bombs in the path of

the ship to chase it out of what it says

are its territorial waters

but which britain and the western world

say belong to ukraine

britain rejected russia's account of the

incident it confirmed the destroyer had

sailed through what it said were

ukrainian waters

describing its path as innocent passage

in accordance with international law of

the sea 

the documents suggested the

ship's mission was conducted in the

expectation that russia might respond

aggressively

the ministry of defence said the

employee concerned reported the loss of

the sensitive documents at the time

but declined to comment further saying

it would be inappropriate