{"id":1394796,"date":"2022-03-22T18:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394796"},"modified":"2022-03-22T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:29:58","slug":"pro-kremlin-paper-claims-it-was-hacked-after-posting-alleged-russian-death-toll-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-kremlin-paper-claims-it-was-hacked-after-posting-alleged-russian-death-toll-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Kremlin Paper Claims It Was Hacked After Posting Alleged Russian Death Toll in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-kremlin-paper-claims-it-was-hacked-after-posting-alleged-russian-death-toll-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>A Russian newspaper called <\/span><i><span>Komsomolskaya Pravda, <\/span><\/i><span>previously noted for its staunch loyalty to the Kremlin, published an article that quickly disappeared from the site on Sunday claiming 9,861 Russian troops have been killed during the invasion of Ukraine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Numerous Western news organizations saved archival copies and screen grabs of the article before its apparent deletion.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The Russian government has been <\/span><span>very tight-lipped<\/span><span> about how many of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/komsomolskaya-pravda-soldier-deaths\/31764466.html\">soldiers<\/a> have died in Ukraine. The only official casualty figure, provided very early in the invasion, claimed 498 confirmed deaths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The figure published by <\/span><i><span>Komsomolskaya Pravda <\/span><\/i><span>on Sunday was much closer to Western intelligence estimates, which put Russian casualties at somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Ukrainian state media site Ukrinform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-ato\/3436686-russias-losses-update-15300-personnel-509-tanks.html\">claimed<\/a> on Tuesday that Russia had tallied 15,300 deaths since the war began in February.\u00a0<\/span><span>If this figure is accurate, the number of Russian soldiers killed during a month of fighting in Ukraine has now eclipsed the number of casualties Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2014\/08\/the-soviet-war-in-afghanistan-1979-1989\/100786\/\">suffered<\/a> during ten years of fighting in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The deleted\u00a0<\/span><span><i>Komsomolskaya Pravda<\/i>\u00a0article reportedly claimed that the figure of 9,861 deaths plus 16,153 wounded was supposedly provided by an unnamed Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) official.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bemused observers suggested that either <\/span><i><span>Komsomolskaya Pravda\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span>website was hacked, a critic of Vladimir Putin\u2019s regime working at the paper published the number of troop deaths as an act of defiance, or someone at the MoD made a career- (and probably life-) threatening mistake by leaking accurate casualty figures to a newspaper reporter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><span>UK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/22\/how-many-russian-soldiers-died-ukraine-losses\"><i><span>Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, <\/span><\/i><span>editors at the Russian paper decided to go with the \u201chacked\u201d explanation, retroactively denouncing their own story for containing \u201cinaccurate information\u201d and deleting the number of deaths from the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAccess to the administrative interface was hacked on the <\/span><i><span>Komsomolskaya Pravda<\/span><\/i><span> website and a fake was made in this publication about the situation around the special operation in Ukraine. The false information was immediately deleted,\u201d the Russian paper said in a statement translated by the <\/span><i><span>Guardian.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian newspaper called Komsomolskaya Pravda, previously noted for its staunch loyalty to the Kremlin, published an article that quickly disappeared from the site on Sunday claiming 9,861 Russian troops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}