Two hacker groups say death records stolen from Russia's federal statistics agency show between 393,881 and 450,100 people killed in the war in Ukraine, a total well above anything Moscow has acknowledged since it stopped publishing military losses in September 2022. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans put the figure at 393,881 as of Aug. 27, while the pro-Ukrainian group Silent Crow says 450,100.
1/7 Our @ROSSTAT hack revealed Russia's killed in action. A minimum of 393,881 Russian-side deaths in the war with Ukraine. Source: Rosstat leak, 2022 - Aug 27 2026. Here's how we did it and what it actually means 🧵 pic.twitter.com/yxbFJV7P4N
— Belarusian CyberPartisans (@cpartisans) November 8, 2026
According to Euronews, the Cyber Partisans counted only deaths where military action or its consequences was the recorded cause, while Silent Crow also added non-combat military deaths, deaths logged as terrorist acts, and people registered in Russia who died in occupied territory or in Ukraine with no cause established. Silent Crow's data, as relayed by Kyiv Post, has annual deaths climbing from about 19,000 in 2022 to more than 182,000 in 2025, mostly among people aged 30
