In a now deleted VK post, the pro-Kremlin media outlet Readovka claims that Russia’s Defense Ministry stated at a “closed briefing” that it’s lost 13,414 soldiers in Ukraine *plus* another 7,000 who are missing. 116 sailors killed aboard the Moskva, with 100+ still missing. 
The archived post is still accessible here (my screenshot above is pulled from there, hence the timestamp). web.archive.org/web/2022042119…
This recalls the “9,861 killed soldiers” report from Komsomolskaya Pravda back on March 21. The paper claimed that was a hack. I don’t see any statement from Readovka about this new thing.
One last thing: this report about a closed briefing never appeared on Readovka’s Telegram channel (which has more than twice as many subscribers), suggesting some funny business of some kind.
Now there’s a statement. It’s another hack. The Ukrainians are quite good at this, it seems: t.me/readovkanews/3…
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