Remember those Russian bounties for dead U.S. troops?, page-6

And on the 10th July 2020.

The collapse of the New York Times’ “Russian bounties” campaign

Patrick Martin

10 July 2020

Less than two weeks after it kicked off a media frenzy with its front-page report claiming that the Russian military intelligence agency GRU had paid bounties to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan to kill American soldiers, the New York Times published an editorial effectively conceding that there was no factual basis for its reporting.
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The editorial appeared on Wednesday, July 8, one day after General Frank McKenzie, the commander of Centcom, with overall responsibility for Afghanistan and the Middle East, told the press that there was no evidence that any US soldiers had been killed because of the alleged Russian bounties.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/10/boun-j10.html