[jeffbee]

Says totally unsourced, unauthenticatable document found on internet.

[rosndo]

Why lie about this? The person who published this document (gulagu.net admin, coincidentally the site has been down since then) is well known and widely thought to be a reliable source.

It wasn’t “found on the internet”.

[lmilcin]

Take it for what it is. It is highly unlikely we will get authenticated document like that.

I red the document, it says a lot of things that I think would be pretty difficult to make up (not impossible, though).

[raducu]

And the purpose of the "leak" is?

A KGB guy just set out to write a rand that demoralizes the russians and gives hope to the ukrainians?

I'm all on the side of the ukrainians, but I'm 99% sure the document is not real.

[hackeraccount]

"Make peace, you fools!" German field marshal Gerd von Rundstedt July 1944

That's why a KGB guy might write something like this - the intent wouldn't be to demoralize russians - it'd be to save Russia.

It still might be propaganda/disinformation but I wouldn't reject it out of hand.

[evgen]

FWIW it has at least passed a sniff-test from Bellingcat, which is probably as close as us normal mortals will ever come to being able to vet a doc like this. If Bellingcat FSB sources suggest this was 'probably written by a colleague' then it at least moves from /r/warcollege fanfic and into the realm of potentially legit.