An active-duty U.S. Army soldier has been arrested and accused of trying to leak classified defense information to Russia, prosecutors said.

Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 6, and charged with attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license, the Department of Justice said in a news release.

Starting in May, Lee, who had been stationed at the Fort Bliss base in Texas , allegedly tried to send sensitive information about the Army's main battle tank to Russia's Ministry of Defense.

“Today’s arrest is a message to anyone thinking about betraying the U.S. – especially service members who have sworn to protect our homeland," Roman Rozhavsky, assistant dir

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