Washington Post: Leaked US documents indicate Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia

Authored by kyivindependent.com and submitted by KI_official

Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi recently ordered subordinates to produce up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia, according to a document exclusively obtained by the Washington Post.

A portion of a top secret document, dated Feb. 17, summarizes alleged conversations between Sisi and senior Egyptian military officials and also highlights plans to supply Russia with artillery rounds and gunpowder.

"In the document, Sisi instructs the officials to keep the production and shipment of the rockets secret 'to avoid problems with the West,'" the Washington Post reports.

The journalists obtained the document from a trove of images of classified files posted in February and March on Discord, instant messaging social platform. The source of the leak remains unknown. The document has not been previously reported.

Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesman for Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, told the journalists commenting on the document that “Egypt’s position from the beginning is based on noninvolvement in this crisis and committing to maintain equal distance with both sides, while affirming Egypt’s support to the U.N. charter and international law in the U.N. General Assembly resolutions.”

No_Hearing48 on April 11st, 2023 at 21:22 UTC »

Friendship ended with Egypt. Now Ethiopia is my best friend.

strigonius on April 11st, 2023 at 12:45 UTC »

It should be clarified these are MLRS rockets, something both sides launch by hundreds each day. At any rate, goes to show how Russia's supposed vast stockpile of arms has deteriorated so much due to neglect since soviet times its mostly just scrap at this point, and its arms industry also atrophied after decades of underinvestment, brain drain, lack of skilled personel and machine tools, and is simply not capable of replacing what they consume - and the post-2014 runup failed to produce appreciable results largely due to both internal (see before) and also external (sanctions) reasons.

KI_official on April 11st, 2023 at 10:05 UTC »

Submission Statement:

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has reportedly ordered the production of up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia, according to a top-secret document obtained by the Washington Post.

The instructions to keep the production and shipment of the rockets secret were given to avoid problems with the West.