Britain's MoD sent emails to Kremlin ally instead of US

Britain's Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after officials unwittingly sent emails containing classified information to a close Russian ally because of a typing error.

A "small number" of emails intended for the Pentagon were sent to Mali because of the accidental omission of an "i" from an email address.

British officials sent the messages to an address ending with the west African country's .ml domain, rather than the US military's .mil.

The same error in the US was revealed last week to have resulted in millions of military emails going to Mali.