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nanoparticletoday at 11:59 AM0 repliesview on HN

The website cites "Wikipedia: Russo-Ukrainian War; Ukrainian Ministry data" as its source, but the figures in the overview (600,000+ Ukrainian military deaths, 100,000+ Russian) aren't close to anything in either source [1].

The UI looks like what Claude would generate, and I'd guess the data was scraped and compiled the same way - but it's not clear how it could reference a Wikipedia page and use numbers that contradict it.

Unless russian efforts to flood the internet with English-language news sites pushing the russian narrative into training sets and retrieval [2] are working. There is even a website tracking the known russian networks that flood the internet with news articles [3].

[1] https://waratlas.org/#year=2026&conflict=russo-ukrainian-war...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/english-langua...

[3] https://portal-kombat.com/