Leaked Russian records show 400,000 war deaths in Ukraine, hackers claim

Hacking groups claim leaked Russian federal records show over 400,000 Russian combat deaths in Ukraine, a figure Moscow has not disclosed since September 2022. The Belarusian group Cyber Partisans and Ukrainian group Silent Crow say they obtained data from 11 million death certificates in a 23-terabyte cyberattack on Rosstat, Russia's statistics agency. They report 356,056 deaths from "operations of war" and 57,100 from other war-related causes, with totals rising each year. Rosstat denied any data leak after the early November attack. The figures align with Western estimates of nearly 500,000 Russian troops killed, and the groups say most deaths occurred in Donetsk, with the Volga region accounting for the largest share of casualties.