Russian war deaths in Ukraine war based on hacked Rosstat data, Digi Mart USA News: Nearly 400,000 Russians have died since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 as a result of the war, according to hacked data from Russia’s statistics agency Rosstat that was reviewed and analyzed by the news agency Bloomberg.
The Belarusian hacker group Cyberpartisans and the Ukrainian hacking organization Silent Crow obtained the data from Rosstat, Russia’s counterpart to the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The dataset reportedly contains more than 11 million Russian death records, including information on age, place of residence and place of death.
The data show that between February 2022 and the end of August 2026, 392,700 death records explicitly reference the war with Ukraine. References are made through codes or descriptions such as “military operation,” “bombing” or “drones.” According to Bloomberg, the actual death toll is “almost certainly” higher.
Some soldiers are missing, some bodies have not been identified, and others may have died later from wounds without this being recorded as war-related.
The hacker group Silent Crow estimates the number of deaths at roughly 450,000. Bloomberg was unable to definitively prove the authenticity of the database but found no evidence of falsification.
The data largely matched previously published official Russian mortality figures.
The hackers reported on November 1 that they had breached Rosstat’s systems. A few days later, the statistics agency confirmed it had been the target of targeted cyberattacks, although Rosstat denied that confidential data had been stolen.
Russia does not publicly disclose the number of soldiers killed in the war with Ukraine. No official figures have been published since the first months after the February 2022 invasion.
Rosstat has also progressively reduced the mortality statistics it makes public.
