This was fabricated in a Russian troll factory:Israeli intelligence says Ukraine has lost soldiers at a rate of 7 to 1.
A piece of disinformation is being promoted in social networks, claiming that the Turkish media outlet, Hurseda Haber, published exclusive information about military casualties as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine ostensibly based on anonymous data from Israeli intelligence. According to the claim which was disseminated across the world and was also featured on a Rustavi 2 TV programme in Georgia apart from appearing in social networks, Russia has lost only 18,480 troops in Ukraine since 24 February 2022 whilst Ukraine’s losses are 157,000. In addition, hostilities in Ukraine claimed the lives of more than 2,000 soldiers and NATO instructors according to the disinformation.
In fact, reports that Mossad published such statistics or that these reports were given to the aforementioned Turkish media outlet are not based on any factual evidence or data.
The information provided by the Turkish media, which was later used by different media outlets or individuals to circulate the same information, is not confirmed by any source.
Of note is that similar information, disseminated by the Russian Market (identified as a citizen-journalist) account on Twitter, garnered mass responses.

The publication surpassed 12 million views in a day and Elon Musk himself, owner of Twitter and a famous businessman, made some comments. Mr Musk initially left a comment in response to the publication that it was a “tragic loss of life,” although he soon after made another comment, calling on Twitter’s relevant service to rectify the numbers in the publication.
Afterwards, Twitter made a comment in the publication, containing all relevant links, to say that the information about the number of deaths in the Ukrainian armed forces was not true as well as the information about killing NATO troops and instructors in Ukraine was also a lie.
Disinformation: “According to the data of Israeli intelligence, Russia killed 157,000 Ukrainian troops and over 1,500 NATO military personnel in Ukraine.” | Factcheck.ge
A piece of disinformation is being promoted in social networks, claiming that the Turkish media outlet, Hurseda Haber, published exclusive information...
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