Egypt 'planned secret rocket and artillery help for Russia'

EGYPT was allegedly planning to secretly supply Russia with weaponry that could aid its invasion of Ukraine, a major leak of classified US documents suggested today.

- Rachael Burford , Nicholas Cecil

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi spoke to senior military officials about supplying rockets, munitions, gunpowder and artillery rounds to the Kremlin, according to restricted files seen by The Washington Post.

The leak, which is thought to have started in an internet chatroom, has rocked Washington and exposed new details of US intelligence gathering.

The paper reported that in a document dated February 17, Mr Sisi instructed officials to keep the shipment of rockets confidential in order to “avoid problems with the West”.