There’s a huge game of cat and mouse underway between Russia and ‘the West,’ whatever that means or represents anymore.
The story is pretty simple on its surface; the West has been pushing and poking trying to provoke some sort of a response from Russia. Unhappy with Russia’s restraint, the West has been increasing the provocations up to and including killing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and some tens of thousands of Russians (best guesses).
The West/NATO has been providing money, weaponry, intelligence, training, “advice,” and missile guidance to Ukraine. The CIA has been training Ukrainian ‘spies’ to operate across the globe against Russian interests, up to and including assassination squads we presume based on the Moscow bombing death of Alexander Dugan’s daughter.
Now some documents were ‘leaked’ from Russia that are at least 10 years old, but for some reason, they are now being thrown out for public consumption.