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Hacked Rosstat Data Suggests Over 400K Russian Fatalities in Ukraine

Is this an inflated tally or a credible count?

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Hacked Rosstat Data Suggests Over 400K Russian Fatalities in Ukraine

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Above: Russian participants of the Ukraine war during the Victory Day parade in Moscow, on May 9. Image credit: Contributor/Getty Images

The Facts

Data taken from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat by Belarusian group Cyber Partisans and Ukraine's operation Silent Crow show that about 450,100 Russians have died fighting in Ukraine since February 2022.
The Telegraph
The Sydney Morning Herald
The groups said Saturday that the records came from Rosstat's internal Demography database and covered death certificates filed between February 2022 and August 2026, with Cyber Partisans counting at least 393,881 fatalities.
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Kyiv Independent
The leaked material consists of more than 11 million death certificates listing details such as residence, age and place of death. Nearly 392,700 of them explicitly link fatalities to the war between Feb. 24, 2022, and late August 2026.
Bloomberg
Japan Times
The hackers said they struck Rosstat's IT infrastructure overnight Oct. 31 to Nov. 1, after earlier gaining access to its internal systems, and extracted about 23 terabytes of internal documents, demographic data and economic statistics.
Clash Report
EuroNews
Analysis posted on the RosstatLeaks portal counted 440,982 death records tied to military fatalities through Aug. 28, excluding missing personnel and foreign mercenaries. The records have not been independently verified.
TVP World
Kyiv Independent
MilitaryNYI
Russia has not disclosed official battlefield losses since September 2022, while Rosstat stopped publishing annual cause-of-death data in 2024. A BBC Russian and Mediazona database reported about 286,000 dead servicepeople as of Sunday.
Moscow Times
Japan Times
Brussels Reporter

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The Spin

Pro-Russia narrative

A leaked spreadsheet isn't proof of anything and a quick spot-check of the file turns up civilians, pre-war deaths and people with no link to the fighting, meaning this headline total is lumping unrelated deaths into a war tally.

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Anti-Russia narrative

These numbers line up with what independent research methods have been for some time. If anything the tally runs low, since the wounded, the missing, foreign recruits and mercenaries were never likely to land in that registry. Blanket denial suggests Russia is covering for the genuine scale of its losses.