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US soldier charged with attempt to provide Russia with battle tank info

Members of the US Army sit on top of an M1A2 Abrams tank near the Washington Monument, in advance of the US Army's 250th anniversary celebration parade on June 13, 2025 [Nathan Howard/Reuters]

An active duty soldier has been charged with seeking to pass sensitive information about the United States Army’s main battle tank to the Russian government, the US Justice Department has announced.

The suspect, Taylor Adam Lee, has been charged with “attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license”, the Justice Department said in a statement on Wednesday.

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