Latvia has sent its military personnel to Ukraine to carry out “specific support functions”, they do not take part in fighting, Delfi reports, citing the national Defence Ministry.
The functions in question are named as guarding the Latvian Embassy in Ukraine and various shipments. At the same time, it is not clarified whether these shipments have anything to do with weapon supplies.
Moreover, it is not clear how many Latvian soldiers are stationed in Ukraine. Their service missions are also not disclosed.
The Pentagon’s classified documents containing US intel were earlier leaked online. Among other things, the documents claimed that some countries had sent their soldiers to Ukraine. These countries included the UK (50 soldiers), Latvia (17), France (15), the United States (14), and the Netherlands (1).
The leak was reported by The New York Times on 6 April. Initially, the documents appeared on social media. Some of them revealed details of US surveillance of its allies: Ukraine, South Korea, and Israel. Others noted the extent of the US penetration into the Russian Defence Ministry and the mercenary Wagner Group. And still others revealed shortcomings in Ukrainian armaments, anti-aircraft defence, battalion sizes, and their combat readiness.
In addition, the documents provided detailed descriptions of Ukrainian counteroffensive plans. Although the documents did not specify dates, they described the types of weapons and the number of units of equipment that Kyiv intends to use in the counteroffensive.
The casualty estimates presented in the documents raised the most scepticism. As many media outlets noted, Russian losses were significantly underestimated in the documents, while Ukrainian losses were overestimated.