Classified U.K. Defense Ministry Papers Found at Bus Stop
- Almost 50 pages of documents were found ‘in a soggy heap’
- Afghanistan, Royal Navy’s Crimea operations topics in cache
HMS Defender (D36) of the Royal Navy arrives at the port of Odesa, Ukraine.
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Documents containing classified information from the U.K. Ministry of Defence were found “in a soggy heap” by an anonymous person at a bus stop in Kent, the BBC reported on Sunday.
The “almost 50 pages” describe details of British military operations, including Royal Navy warship HMS Defender’s passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast last week, and the likely Russian reaction.