A Russian state-affiliated channel in the Telegram messaging service fabricated the news report about Budanov’s death, and RIA Novosti repeated and amplified it, even after the Ukrainian government’s Center for Countering Disinformation exposed it.
“The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, will not be able to continue his service after being wounded as a result of a Russian missile strike, a representative of Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti, citing sources in the Ukrainian army.”
The news agency claimed that Zaluzhny “received a closed craniocerebral injury and multiple shrapnel wounds due to a missile attack on a command post near the village of Posad-Pokrovskoye in the Kherson region in early May,” adding that he “underwent a craniotomy in a military hospital in Kyiv.”by producing a video showing Zaluzhnyi alive and well. In it, Anatolii Shtefan, a Ukrainian army officer, said the video had been recorded that same day.
But that did not prevent RIA Novosti from stating, on June 4, that "it is not clear when and where exactly the video was recorded." It also quoted disgraced ex-U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter as saying that Zaluzhnyi was alive but had been “seriously wounded” in “a Russian strike on a command post in the vicinity of Kherson."
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