Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi planned to ship up to 40,000 rockets to Russia, according to leaked U.S. intelligence documents obtained by the Washington Post.
President Biden also traveled to Egypt last November and met with el-Sisi, and commended the Egyptian president for his country's stance on the war.
"In the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Egypt has spoken up strongly at the United Nations, and that is appreciated very much as well," Biden said at the time. One of the documents, which is dated Feb. 17, says el-Sisi instructed his senior military officials to supply Russia with rockets, artillery rounds, and gunpowder, but to keep the plans secret in order"to avoid problems with the West," according to theRescuers work at the site of a maternity ward of a hospital destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Nov. 23, 2022.
An official identified by the newspaper as Mohamed Salah al-Din, the minister of state for military production, told the Egyptian president that he would"order his people to work shift work if necessary because it was the least Egypt could do to repay Russia for unspecified help earlier." The nature of that help is unclear, Egypt increased its reliance on Russian wheat last year amid disruptions to the global market stemming from Russia's
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