EDIT: the first article from the parent comment was
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia...Those aren't quotes from the article and there is no reasonable way to read those contradictions from what's being said.
You seem to be really badly misunderstanding this specific passage:
>"Shamir was also a longtime friend of Julian Assange, who tasked him with helping to disseminate WikiLeaks documents in his native Russia in early 2010.
>“Shamir has a years-long friendship with Assange, and was privy to the contents of tens of thousands of US diplomatic cables months before WikiLeaks made public the full cache,” James Ball, a former WikiLeaks staffer, wrote at the Guardian the next year. “Shamir aroused the suspicion of several WikiLeaks staffers — myself included — when he asked for access to all cable material concerning ‘the Jews,’ a request which was refused.”
>The first thing Shamir did with the documents was hand some off to Russian Reporter magazine, a Kremlin-friendly newsweekly."
I.e. Shamir, a Wikileaks employee, had access to some leaked US diplomatic cables. He was refused additional access. No contradiction.
This is also the only time that Assange's early relationship with Shamir was ever mentioned (read the article for yourself, find where I'm wrong) and note how it mentions leaking US documents in Russia.
There is no mention anywhere in the article of Shamir "leaking Russian documents in Russia", or what Assange "first contacted" Shamir for. There is also NOWHERE in the article that claims that Assange "never leaked Russian documents".
You're free to disagree with the article, but you're absolutely incorrect and completely misleading about its contents.