[Drew68]

The website was hacked. Of course the figures remain on archived websites because they’re archived and unable to be edited.

There’s no way Russia would release such catastrophic numbers to their own press. Do better, Daily Mail.

[marcusmaximus]

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Claims Her Website Was Hacked

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/24/msnbcs-joy-reid-claims-her-website-was-hacked-and-bigoted-anti-lgbt-content-added-a-bizarre-story-liberal-outlets-ignore/

[buwaya]

The assumption here is that the Russian newspaper published these figures either inadvertently or through some insider trying to get the word out. That itself is news.

[wild74]

I agree I have a hard time believing that 10,000 of their soldiers have been killed. If that is the case Russians ground forces and equipment is very poor and poorly trained.

[Widget Jr]

The Komsomolskaya Pravda website was not hacked. They uploaded a article with the actual casualty figures, then edited it out a few minutes later.

Nobody one hacks a newspaper site to insert single paragraphs into articles like that. Someone was put out a feeler to see how the Russian populace would respond when the truth comes out.

I went over the editing, timeline and archiving on a earlier thread here.