Secret UK defence documents found in soggy heap at bus stop, says BBC

FILE PHOTO: The British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender is moored before a ceremony marking the warship's arrival in the Black Sea port of Batumi, Georgia, June 26, 2021. Vasil Gedenidze/British Embassy in Georgia/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) -Classified documents from Britain's defence ministry containing details about a British warship and Russia's potential reaction to its passage through the Black Sea have been found at a bus stop in southern England, the BBC reported on Sunday.

The BBC said the documents, almost 50 pages in all, were found "in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent early on Tuesday morning" by a member of the public, who wanted to remain anonymous.