Between 2022 and August 27, 2026, nearly 400,000 Russian soldiers are expected to die in the conflict with Ukraine.
The figure was revealed by the “Cyberpartisans”, a group of Belarusian hackers opposed to Alexander Lukashenko, who allegedly hacked documents at Rosstat (the Russian statistics agency) and gained access to official death data in the “special operation” launched by Moscow four years ago.
The stolen toll – not confirmed by independent sources – speaks of 393,881 deaths linked to the fighting on the Russian front.
On November 1, the collective reportedly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack—conducted in conjunction with “Silent Crow,” a pro-Ukrainian hacker group—that resulted in the acquisition of over ten terabytes of data.
For its part, the Russian statistics agency denies that there was any leak.
The method used by the group takes into account deaths classified as related to war-related events or their consequences, as well as those explicitly mentioning combat. The count may include civilians, victims of other conflicts, or people who died before 2022 but were recorded afterward.
Deaths not present in the register or those for which the information is incorrect or incomplete are not included in the calculation.
Silent Crow reports a total of 450,100 deaths, based on a broader count: specifically, it includes 14,160 military personnel killed outside of combat, as well as deaths for which the cause was not indicated, which occurred in Ukraine or in occupied territories. The figure is composed of 440,982 documented deaths and 9,118 additional estimated ones. None of these figures—which do not include the wounded or missing—can be equated exclusively with Russian soldiers killed in combat in Ukraine.
The "Cyberpartisans" claim to have passed the files to several media outlets for verification. According to Reuters, the two groups had already claimed responsibility for the attack on Aeroflot in July 2025, which caused the cancellation of dozens of flights.
(Unioneonline)