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Something I don’t quite understand with reporting is why certain statements say “cannot independently confirm” when other statements don’t get that label. They clearly have no way to confirm them either, especially when the number is very specific.
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In this example, the number of Russian service members killed is disputed by Russia. There are also more complex questions about what sort of number you accept as being information a civic authority might have versus numbers that are harder to gather and verify, but there's that.