Austin Malloy
Austin Malloy joined RFE/RL as a multimedia editor in June 2022. He was previously head of multimedia at The Kyiv Post in Ukraine. Before that he spent three years covering the post-Soviet region as a Moscow-based video journalist, working primarily with Voice Of America . He holds an MA in international studies from the University of Washington's Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies.
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The Daily's Verdict
This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.
Bias
85%
Examples:
- Implies that the attack was on a kamikaze drone factory when it was not
Conflicts of Interest
50%
Examples:
- Worked as head of multimedia at The Kyiv Post in Ukraine
Contradictions
85%
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- An unmanned aerial vehicle hit a military drone production facility in Russia's Tatarstan region, some 1,200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
- The strike on the oil refinery was the 18th launched against Russian refineries with long-range drones since Ukraine began targeting them last October, a campaign that has shrunk Russia's refining capacity and forced it to ban gasoline exports temporarily.
- Ukraine carried out an attack on a Russian oil refinery and munitions factory using drones .
Deceptions
50%
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- . Embed Air Attack Deep Inside Russia Targets Kamikaze Drone Factory <https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-drone-attack-strike-ukraine-attack--32888180.html>
Recent Articles
Ukraine Launches Daring Drone Strikes on Russian Industrial Heartland in Tatarstan
Broke On: Tuesday, 02 April 2024Ukraine launched drone strikes against targets in Russia, targeting one of its largest oil refineries and a factory that produces Iranian-designed Shahed drones. The attacks were the first in Tatarstan since the beginning of the war.