A retired US Air Force officer has been sentenced for leaking classified information about Russia's war against Ukraine to a person posing as a Ukrainian woman on a dating website.

Source: ABC News, as reported by European Pravda

Details: David Slater, 64, a former civilian employee at the US Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison. He has also been fined US$25,000 and ordered to undergo a year of supervision upon his release after serving his sentence.

Slater admitted he was guilty of conspiring to disclose classified national defence information. In exchange for his guilty plea, two other charges were dropped.

Investigators found that between 2021 and 2022, Slater had access to briefings on Russia's war against Ukraine that were classified up to top secret. He shared intelligence on Russian military targets and capabilities through a messaging feature on a foreign dating site with a person claiming to be a woman from Ukraine.

In their correspondence, the individual repeatedly asked him for information classified as secret, referring to him with phrases such as "my secret informant love!" and "You are my secret agent. With love".

Court documents do not reveal the identity of the coconspirator or clarify whether she was linked to either the Ukrainian or Russian governments.

Slater was arrested in March 2024. His case is one of several high-profile US investigations involving the leaking of classified materials, including the arrest of 21-year-old US airman Jack Teixeira, who shared Pentagon documents related to Ukraine's military operations.

Background: In 2024, a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel David Slater was arrested and charged with unlawfully disclosing classified information about national defence and the Russo-Ukrainian war through a dating website.

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