U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest of Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira in connection to the Pentagon leak investigation.
Teixeira, 21, is accused of leaking classified U.S. intelligence documents related to the war in Ukraine. He is a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, officials told NBC News.
FBI took Teixeira into custody without incident on Thursday, according to Garland. He will be making an initial appearance in Massachusetts.
The source behind the trove of classified Pentagon documents leaked to social media that have become the biggest U.S. intelligence breach since Edward Snowden worked on a U.S. military base, according to reporting by the Washington Post.
The Post said it also reviewed approximately 300 photos of classified documents, most of which have not been made public.
Germany has approved Poland's request to transfer five Soviet-designed fighter jets to Ukraine, the German Defense Ministry said in an Associated Press report.
Russia's Parliament passed legislation requiring the digitization of the country's draft registry, in a move that will harvest more of Russians' data and intensify control over the population, analysts say. Many Russian lawmakers and military bloggers have been pushing for more aggressive mobilization efforts and enforcement for some time.
The bloody battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut continues, with Russian forces gaining more ground and claiming to have the city almost entirely surrounded. Ukrainian commanders reject that claim.