A Rostat data leak has revealed the number of possible Russian military casualties in the war against Ukraine. the telegraph.
The hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans gained access to Rostat's internal demographic database, which contains data on death certificates for the period from February 2022 to August 2026.
According to "Silent Crow", about 450.1 thousand Russians died during this period. Cyber Partisans, which only count combat-related deaths, put the figure at 393,881.
Rostat has confirmed the cyber attack, which lasted from October 29 to November 1, but denies a data leak.
The estimates given by the hackers are similar to British intelligence data, which estimates the number of Russian army casualties at around 500,000. British Chief of Defense Staff Rich Knighton previously estimated Russia's total losses - dead and wounded - at 1.5 million people.
According to the hackers' forecast, if the current rate continues, in 2026 the number of Russian dead may exceed 200 thousand.