US intelligence leak, Ukrainian UAV in Moscow suburbs, saboteurs enter Russia’s Bryansk region. What happened on the front line on April 6?

Arms supplies

Polish President Andrzej Duda announced that Warsaw would supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with three batteries (24 units) of 120 mm M120 Rak self-propelled mortars. Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller also announced that Ukraine had increased its order of Rosomak armored personnel carriers (APCs) from Poland from 100 to 150 units.

Meanwhile, the EU cannot reach an agreement on where to buy ammunition worth €1 billion for Ukraine, despite approving a joint purchase of ammunition for Kyiv earlier. The bone of contention is whether these arms contracts will be awarded only to EU companies or whether they will also be open to third-party manufacturers, according to a report by Politico.

The US intends to transfer experimental anti-drone weapons to Ukraine, according to a report by Defense One. The weapons are “10 mobile c-UAS laser-guided rocket systems” from the US company SAIC, which have the following capabilities:

• laser systems to damage drones;
• radio electronic systems for jamming and hindering normal operation;
• drone-based capture systems for physically capturing drones;
• kinetic systems for destroying UAVs with missiles or small arms.

Poland and Ukraine will produce 125mm tank ammunition, which is used by most Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian tanks. Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa and a Ukrainian company signed an agreement in the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his deputy, Minister for State Assets Jacek Sasin.

Ammunition production is also underway in Russia – Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected several manufacturing facilities on April 6. Shoigu visited defense plants in Nizhny Novgorod oblast, where he inspected progress on a government defense contract for the production of artillery and aviation ammunition. He was shown the recently produced large-caliber FAB-1500 M-54 air bombs.

Leaked and photoshopped US intelligence report

The Wagner PMC-affiliated Telegram channel Grey Zone published a report on April 6 stating that by April 1, planned deliveries of weapons to staff nine new AFU brigades had been completed. Grey Zone also published the amount of equipment for each of the brigades in detail. An allegedly leaked US intelligence briefing document with the data was also published in other Telegram channels. According to the brief, the total number of weapons required for the nine brigades is 253 tanks, 381 tracked vehicles, 480 wheeled vehicles, 147 artillery pieces, and 571 armored HMMWVs.

Reports later revealed that the figures in the losses section of the brief were photoshopped in the version shared by pro-Russian Telegram channels: Russian military losses were reduced almost threefold, fighter aircraft losses were reduced tenfold, and ground-based equipment losses were also reduced tenfold. Ukraine's military losses were grossly overstated by a factor of 4.5. The source of the original document is also unclear, as it was published on the anonymous forum 4chan. It is impossible to confirm the reliability of the figures on the supply of equipment, although they do not seem to contradict data from open sources.