The Saudi Arabia’s news agency, AlArabiya, published an article with a short video, depicting Russian soldiers in the Kursk region. In one of the clips from the video, a Russian soldier retrieves from a captured Bradly Infantry Fighting Vehicle a manual published by the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. The manual’s title reads as follows: National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Manual FY17 09-ITAM-50 SERIES V7695S.

It is likely that Russia’s declassification of the manual follows its attempts to address the matter with Washington. At the outbreak of the Kursk operation, Russia summoned the United States Ambassador in Moscow, Russia for a discussion regarding the participating of American mercenaries in Ukraine’s Kursk incursion.

On August 21st, 2024, Moscow presented classified information to the US Ambassador regarding a US-based private military group said to have been involved in aiding Ukraine’s incursion in Russia’s border region of Kursk, as per reports. The group attracted media attention after it shared photos of its team members taking part in Ukraine’s military incursion into Kursk last week. The evidence Russia presented to the US Ambassador over its participation, however, was never released to the public.

The Fort Irwin map, which is depicted below from screenshots from Saudi Arabia’s news agency, AlArabiya, are more than likely the declassified evidence Russia presented to the US Ambassador over the participation of that unnamed private military group. If true, the involvement of the United States might have been much deeper then than previous period of time.

The Fort Irwin map suggests that the United States may have even planned, prepared, or trained the private military group along with a select group of Ukrainians for the Kursk incursion. These facts provide a basis for the claim that U.S. planned the Kursk incursion for Ukraine.

The AlArabiya reported the discovery of the manual last month. The Western press, however, appears to have largely ignored the finding. None of the major mainstream American or German newspapers published stories on the manual. These would be the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Welt, Bild, Der Spiegel, or Suddeutsche Zeitung. Arabic articles headline the finding as a ‘treasure.’