A Russian drone and ballistic missile attack killed nine in Kyiv on Saturday. Tuesday's completed file still uses that number and that day. [1] The toll has not been revised upward in the headline bundle. It has not been walked back.

That is the hold. New death on Tuesday is elsewhere. Five around Moscow. Five more Ukrainians in other Russian strikes. Seven on a Black Sea beach Monday. [1] Saturday's nine is not those counts.

The paper's Moscow-area brief is today's Russian-side number. Kyiv's Saturday nine is yesterday's capital number that still stands. Mixing them produces a fake 14 for one city or a fake overnight for a weekend strike.

X will refresh the rubble as if it fell this morning. The wire's date is Saturday. Until city emergency services publish a new Kyiv total, nine remains the capital's last closed figure.

Ballistic plus drone is the Saturday method in that sentence. [1] Tuesday's other Ukrainian deaths are a separate five, not an edit to the capital nine. Mixing methods and days is how a weekend strike becomes a fake daily. Hold the date.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow