{"id":48293,"date":"2026-06-24T17:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=48293"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:14:37","slug":"fake-claim-about-2-4-million-afu-casualties-russian-propaganda-scales-up-its-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/fake-claim-about-2-4-million-afu-casualties-russian-propaganda-scales-up-its-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake claim about \u201c2.4 million AFU casualties\u201d: russian propaganda scales up its lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims by russian propaganda that 2.4 million Ukrainian servicemen have been killed or gone missing in the war against russia are false.<\/p>\n<p>\u25fd\ufe0f Enemy resources are actively spreading this disinformation. They claim the source of the information is \u201crussian hackers\u201d who allegedly breached the databases of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers, and medical institutions.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, these claims are fabricated. The casualty figures cited by the russians exceed the total size of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u25fd\ufe0f This is a continuation of a long-running russian disinformation campaign. Previously, propagandists widely promoted the claim of 1.7 million Ukrainian casualties. The Center has already debunked this fake. Having failed to come up with anything new, kremlin propagandists simply added another 700,000 to their old lie.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this disinformation is to divert attention from russia\u2019s own battlefield losses. It is worth noting that russia loses between 40,000 and 50,000 soldiers killed and wounded every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims by russian propaganda that 2.4 million Ukrainian servicemen have been killed or gone missing in the war against russia are false. \u25fd\ufe0f Enemy resources are actively spreading this disinformation. They claim the source of the information is \u201crussian hackers\u201d who allegedly breached the databases of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}