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Proof: Ukrainian drone attack sets fire to oil tanker carrying 23 Indians off Russia

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a8d0de0d33fb133db23ed74a5b184082a68a6039f14986fa127b700573113983

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970247, mined 2026-10-06 23:00 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 22:40 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:not-found.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-a8d0de0d33fb.json prints a8d0de0d33fb133db23ed74a5b184082a68a6039f14986fa127b700573113983. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-a8d0de0d33fb.json and headline-a8d0de0d33fb.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-a8d0de0d33fb.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, 4 min after it was first seen.