'Russia reported 400,000 dead in Ukraine war'
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Russia has recorded around 400,000 deaths among its men in Ukraine according to data stolen from Rosstat and reported by Bloomberg, obtained by Cyber Partisans and Silent Crow, with 392,700 war-related death certificates between February 2022 and August 2026.
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Why It Matters
The article reports data stolen from the Russian statistics agency Rosstat regarding Russian human losses in the war in Ukraine, obtained by the Belarusian pro-opposition group Cyber Partisans and the Ukrainian hackers Silent Crow, and released by Bloomberg.
Russia has recorded the deaths of around 400,000 of its men fighting in Ukraine, according to data stolen from the Russian statistics agency Rosstat. The data, reports the Bloomberg agency, were obtained by the Belarusian pro-opposition group Cyber Partisans and the Ukrainian hackers Silent Crow and show how between February 2022 and the end of August 2026 there were 392,700 death certificates explicitly linked to the war in Ukraine.
Open Questions
- How exactly was the data obtained from Rosstat?
- Has the data been independently verified?
- What is Russia's official reaction to these figures?







