I agree that if the Mail, Star, Post, etc. posted a fake story they should retract or verify the mistake.
Sure some are fakes, but Russians have confirmed some of them dead also.
The most famous fake is major general gerasimov, who was variously reported fired, killed, wounded, many many times.
He’s still alive and they only figured out half these stories were fake when putin personally gave him an award...
https://min.news/en/military/2b63c6584bcb46b3381f443d42d5650e.html