[London, 22nd Archyde.com]–Komsomolskaya Prouda, a Russian tabloid, has deleted false news about the death of nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine more than six hours after it was published. He claimed to have received a cyberattack from a hacker who aimed to spread.
An original article collected in the web archive reports that the Russian Defense Ministry said that 9861 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 16,153 were injured in a Ukrainian special military operation.
As of the 22nd, the article is available with the casualty description removed. The newspaper also posted a document saying that there was unauthorized access on the 21st and “disinformation was inserted”, but it was immediately deleted.
The Russian government has not updated the number of casualties since it reported that 498 soldiers were killed and 1597 were injured on March 2.
A spokesman for the Presidential Office of Peskov said in a telephone conference on the 22nd that he did not know the number of casualties and declined to comment on the article by Komsomolskaya Prouda.
At the same press conference, the newspaper’s reporter said the website was hacked and disinformation was displayed on the site for a few minutes.
Ukrainian President Podryak said in a post on the dialogue app “Telegram” that the death toll of Russian soldiers was 9861. People have been killed. “
Archyde.com has not been able to independently determine the number of casualties.