Russian tabloid posts — then removes — report on Defense Ministry's count of Russian soldier deaths in Ukraine


The Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published, then later removed, a report that the Russian Ministry of Defense had recorded 9,861 Russian Armed forces deaths in the war in Ukraine.

The report from the tabloid originally read, "According to the Russian Defense Ministry, during the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces lost 9861 people killed and 16153 wounded."

CNN analyzed the HTML code in the website which indicates that the article was published on Monday at 12:09 a.m. Moscow time.

Seconds after CNN read the original article — at 9:56 p.m. Moscow time according to the HTML code — the story was updated and removed all references to the death count. That update on the outlet's website came shortly after the article began to get attention from social media posts, which referenced the death count.

Some background: Since March 2, Russia has not reported a military death count. The original report from the tabloid is in line with US Department of Defense estimates, which say that there have been up to 10,000 Russian military deaths.

After the update, Komsomolskaya Pravda later published a statement saying that "access to administrator interface was hacked" and that "a fake insert was made into a publication."

They claimed that "inaccurate information was immediately removed." CNN analysis showed that the update came after 21 hours.

Credit: https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-21-22/index.html
From CNN's Paul P. Murphy, Vasco Cotovio and Nathan Hodge

That is exaggerated on both sides.

Like a scene from the movie 'Black Hawk Down'.

CNN? Would rather listen to NTA than CNN.

CNN?
I rest my case

Who do the census

CNN

All those wailers above crying CNN are all gullible.

CNN na evil propaganda machine. Las las God go shame una

you mean excluding the 25000 that were reportedly dead last week?

nurudeen181:
you mean excluding the 25000 that were reportedly dead last week?

why is that any thing against Russia is lie , but if hear that the kill Ukraine army it becomes authentic news. People of hate

I swear Nigeria army better pass Russia soldiers, Russia army can't stand boko Haram. Just imagine how small Ukraine .

izenco2005:
I swear Nigeria army better pass Russia soldiers, Russia army can't stand boko Haram. Just imagine how small Ukraine .

bros Ukraine is the size of northern Nigeria, no be day job to invade am especiaLly when the targets are specific.
not even us would succeed in Nigeria within a month to invade the north without their nukes.