All, This report is true. The KGB’s profile was to plant false stories about the USA in 3d world media, it especially favored the Indian press. During my intel years, I saw this being practiced and saw the stories about Aids and the analysis behind them, especially how they were planted in overseas newspapers.
I think the classification on a lot of this stuff expired in 2018 and there were several articles written about it then.
I suspect RBTH (that is Russian state owned) just wanted to have an English language article they themselves wrote out there, where they are softer on Russia than the other ones.
Don’t know enough about the topic to spot distortions or omissions though.