It is possible that the Russian war casualty figures are exaggerated.
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Russian servicemen slain in Ukraine were memorialised on the website of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda on Sunday. The Russian war on Ukraine, dubbed "special operations" by the Komsomolka side, has already claimed the lives of 9,861 servicemen.
Before it could be completely erased, this phone number could only be briefly viewed. A possible answer emerged the next day, according to Komsomolka: the site had been compromised and a bogus report had been submitted. As soon as the error was discovered, it was corrected.
Russian losses in this conflict are only known by two individuals in Moscow. In early March, the Ministry of Defense confirmed the death toll: 498. There were no more fatality statistics published in the Department of Defense's daily briefings on the war's progress after that.
This new information on Russian deaths might be traced back to a cyber assault, according to experts. The Kremlin's official account regarding the conflict in the neighbouring countries is entirely supported by the editors. Dmitry Steshin, a correspondent in the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine's south east, reported in a video message on Tuesday.
The "Ukrainian Nazis" are tormenting the city's population, not the Russian military, according to his account. This correspondent is currently accompanying a group of Russian soldiers who are fighting to clear a "road of life" for refugees.
The "Ukrainian Nazis" are tormenting the city's population, not the Russian military, according to his account. This reporter is now following a group of Russian troops who are fighting to clear a "way of life" for migrants.
An 80-ton humanitarian aid distribution was highlighted at the top of the website on the same day, along with a storey on the Russian National Guard's distribution of supplies to residents sheltering in cellars from Ukrainian troops' firing. "Zelenskyj is playing for time before the ultimate capitulation," the new paragraph read.
In addition, Komsomolka publishes obituaries of troops who have died or reports on their interment in their hometowns on a daily basis. Despite the fact that the victims are from all across Russia, it is notable how few of them hail from the Ukraine border districts.
As could be expected, the Ukrainian military employs a completely different set of numbers from the one in use in Moscow. Russian losses on Tuesday amounted to 15,300, which Western intelligence services perceive to be a high number. There are reports of anything from 7000 to 9000 Russian servicemen being killed.
"Our front lines of defence are almost overrun by the dead of Russian troops," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Sunday night in a letter to the Russian people after describing the situation in stark terms in previous communications to them. It is also impossible to independently verify this portrayal. "Ukrainska Pravda," which publishes the photographs and biographical details of six Russian military leaders who are said to have died in the conflict, is a case in point."