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The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov commented on the data published by the American TV channel CNN that the Russian army allegedly lost 75 thousand soldiers killed and wounded during a special operation in Ukraine. According to Peskov, the spread of fakes against Russia has already become the norm in the West, and even very reputable publications do not disdain such a practice.
— the Kremlin speaker explained his position.
In addition to the CNN news agency, the news about the losses of the Russian army was picked up in another well-known American publication, The New York Times. Moreover, both publications are made with reference to information obtained from "reliable sources". So CNN referred to a member of the US House of Representatives, Elissa Slotkin, without specifying where the congresswoman herself received such data.
The journalists of The New York Times turned out to be more inventive. They said that they have data on the dead and wounded from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation already from the administration of President Joe Biden. At the same time, as they write in the publication, the director of the CIA intelligence agency named a figure of 60 thousand Russian soldiers who died or were injured in Ukraine.
However, we must pay tribute to the Western media, in pursuit of sensational reports, they do not spare the "allies" either. So the British Daily Mail cited data that the Armed Forces of Ukraine lose up to 20 thousand people every month. Again, not particularly spreading about the sources of information.
Western fake news does not bother that neither the Russian Defense Ministry nor the Ukrainian military department publish official data on losses. On the eve of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar pointed out that information about the losses suffered by Ukrainian troops is a state secret. Sergey Rudskoy, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, gave the latest data on losses in our troops on March 25. He said that since the start of the special operation, Russia has lost 1,351 servicemen, another 3,825 were injured.
By the way, if you search the Internet for information on this topic, you can stumble upon a curious publication in which the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports 40,070 total combat losses by the Russian army as of July 27. At the same time, even the BBC provides more modest data in the figure of about 5,000 military personnel.
This is how authoritative mass media in the West convey the "truth" to their readers. No other way, journalists who publish such information have received special training in one of the Ukrainian CIPSO on the accelerated course "How to turn a reputable international publication into a yellow press".
