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Russian Regional Outlet Says Website Was Hacked to Plant Fake ‘Exclusive Interview’ with Governor Downplaying Drone Strikes

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On April 29, the Krasnodar-based outlet Anapa Region published an article headlined “Exclusive interview with the governor of Krasnodar Krai on the situation in Tuapse.” The article was quickly deleted — though a copy was preserved in a web archive — and the outlet reported that its website had been hacked and the interview planted. The article contained the following statements by Governor Veniamin Kondratyev:

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Veniamin Kondratyev, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, on a series of Ukrainian military attacks on a refinery near Tuapse, is helping Russians to fix fuel oil tanks to Ukrainian drones for the “effect of naphthous specks”. That was the end of the sight. Like this.

·Ukraine
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A Russian official in an interview disseminated the "oil drop effect", but the publication was later deleted.

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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