 Ukraine planned attacks on Russian forces in Syria. Ukraine's military intelligence agency developed plans to conduct covert attacks on Russian forces in Syria using secret Kurdish help, according to a leaked top secret US intelligence document. The instruction of a new battlefield, thousands of miles from the war in Ukraine, appeared, designed to impose costs and casualties on Russia and its Wagner paramilitary group, which is active in Syria and possibly force Moscow to redeploy resources from Ukraine. According to the Washington Post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky directed a halt to the planning in December, but the leaked document, based on intelligence gathered as of January the 23rd, lays out in detail how the planning progressed and how such a campaign could proceed if Ukraine revived it. The document, which in places bears the marking HCS-P, indicating that certain information is derived from human sources, details how officers of the main directorate of intelligence, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's military intelligence service, could plan deniable attacks that would avoid implicating the Ukrainian government itself. The Washington Post obtained the document, which has not been previously reported from a trove of intelligence material, allegedly leaked to a discord chat room by Jack Tissera, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. Moscow transferred some troops and hardware from Syria to the Ukraine battlefield last fall, which may have led Kiev to assess that their departure created vulnerabilities. Attacks on Russian forces in Syria might raise the threat level to the point where the Russians would need to call in reinforcements, which could help the war effort back in Ukraine, said Aaron Lund, a fellow at the think tank Century International. During planning in December, the document states Ukrainian military intelligence officers favored striking Russian forces using unmanned aerial vehicles and starting small or possibly limiting their strikes only to forces of the Wagner mercenary group.