proof
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/01/11/lloyd-austin-cancer-ukraine-fact-check/72179793007/
https://starletonews.com/2024/01/died-in-ukraine-sent-to-gitmo-mysterious-hospitalization-of-secretary-of-defense-sends-conspiracy-theorists-into-a-tizzy/
https://checkyourfact.com/2024/01/10/fact-check-facebook-post-falsely-claims-lloyd-austin-was-killed-in-ukraine/
A Jan. 7 article from Real Raw News claims a Russian attack in Ukraine killed a top U.S. official.
“Criminal Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was allegedly killed in Kyiv on January 3 when Russian cruise missiles peltered a command bunker where Austin and Lieutenant General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander in chief of the Ukrainian Army, met secretly,” the article reads.
The story was shared over 250 times on Facebook in four days, according to CrowdTangle, a social media analytics tool.