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Elly Blake

Pro-Kremlin tabloid says 10k Russians killed in Ukraine - before saying it was hacked

Vladimir Putin at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow

(Picture: SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

A pro-Kremlin tabloid reported on Monday that almost 10,000 Russian troops had died during its invasion of Ukraine, before claiming it had been hacked.

Komsomolskaya Pravda said 9,861 Russian soldiers had been killed and 16,153 injured since February 24, citing the country’s Ministry of Defence.

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