That is according to confidential data held by Russia's statistics agency, Rosstat, Ukrinform reports, citing Bloomberg . The data was obtained by the Belarusian pro-opposition group Cyber Partisans and the Ukrainian hacker operation Silent Crow. It was subsequently shared with Bloomberg and a small group of other outlets. The deaths were recorded between February 24, 2022 and late August 2026 and explicitly linked to the war, with foreign war-related deaths rising roughly in step with Russia's overall toll. The data shows that the Russian military drew most heavily on the former Soviet states, with about 3,700 of the foreign dead being either Ukrainian citizens or born in Ukraine after it gained independence in 1991.
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