The report on VKontakte stated that more than 13,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine. Around 7000 must be missing.
The Russian online newspaper Readovka posted a message on the Russian social media VKontakte on Thursday. The message referred to a closed briefing from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Readovka is considered a Kremlin online newspaper.
The losses of the Russian army in Ukraine are estimated at 13,414 people. In addition, around 7,000 will be missing.
The record also referred to 116 dead and over 100 missing from the cruiser Moscow, which sank on 14 April.
–– Our VKontakte account was hacked
The Russian online newspaper Jellyfish writes that the post was deleted after a short time. But it is filed on Wayback Machine. Meduza is critical of the Russian regime. The newspaper publishes from Latvia.
Readovka has 400,000 followers on VKontakte and 1 million on Telegram. The publication announced on Friday that the post was due to hacking. It writes that the hacking took place from a “neighboring state”, and that the mentioned information from the Ministry of Defense does not exist.
The latest official Russian casualty figures are still 1351 Russian soldiers. This figure was published on March 25.
Something similar happened on March 21. Then the state-controlled Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published that almost 10,000 Russian soldiers were killed. Here, too, it was blamed on hacking. The figures were quickly removed from the article.
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