A massive data leak from Russia's Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) has revealed that up to 450,000 Russian citizens may have been killed since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The figures were calculated by Belarusian hacker group Cyberpartisans BY and hacking group Silent Crow, which claimed to have stolen approximately 23 terabytes of data from the Russian state agency.
\n\nAccording to Cyberpartisans BY, at least 393,881 Russian citizens had been killed in the war as of August 27, 2026. Silent Crow put the figure considerably higher at 450,100. The figures, if verified, would make the war in Ukraine Russia's deadliest conflict since World War II. The estimated death toll is also far higher than the roughly 13,000 Soviet troops killed during the nine-year Soviet-Afghan War.
\n\nThe difference stems from their counting methods. Cyberpartisans BY included deaths directly linked to military action and its long-term consequences, while Silent Crow also counted non-combat deaths among military personnel, deaths classified as terrorist acts and people who died in occupied territories or Ukraine without an established cause of death.
\n\nThe hackers said the stolen information included internal documents, demographic and economic statistics, as well as data on Russian wartime…
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