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Proof: Russia strikes Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T15:22:03Z","headline":"Russia strikes Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"euronews","url":"https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/28/russia-strikes-ukraines-national-academy-of-sciences-killing-at-least-one-person","v":1}

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SHA-256

b9c1d0939027a396726853201d8cd7ac2475f05f985a75014d5d805b6193f0f3

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969020, mined 2026-09-28 15:47 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 15:27 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 15:43 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-b9c1d0939027.json prints b9c1d0939027a396726853201d8cd7ac2475f05f985a75014d5d805b6193f0f3. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-b9c1d0939027.json and headline-b9c1d0939027.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-b9c1d0939027.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 5 min after it was first seen.