The BBC has named 285,023 dead Russian soldiers. Russia’s own registry may hold up to 450,100 war dead, hackers say
The gap suggests how many deaths never make it into an obituary, a memorial, or a public grave.
Russia's state statistics agency, Rosstat, reported a range of 393,881 to 450,100 Russian war dead as of late August, according to two hacker groups that breached the country's systems. These figures, verified by no independent source, fall between media estimates and expert assessments of the true death toll. Rosstat keeps no records of war casualties, so all counts have been derived from external sources such as obituaries, graves, and Ukraine's battlefield estimates.
The dispute over Russia's war losses intensifies as Russia's losses mount: October was the deadliest month for Russia according to Ukraine's assessment, with each square kilometer claiming more soldiers than before. Ukraine's General Staff estimates Russia's killed and wounded at approximately 1.6 million, with 16,130 fatalities in the first week of November alone. Two hacker groups have now published their own counts from the same Rosstat records.
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