Russian casualties ‘reach 450,000’: What that means for the Ukraine war

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Records leaked from Rosstat, Russia’s state statistics agency, have shown that at least 450,000 Russians, most of them soldiers, died in the war in Ukraine up to August this year. Among the dead were more than 4,000 foreign citizens who are believed to have died fighting for Russia, from countries including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Nepal, Colombia and Nigeria. The records were obtained by two hacking groups, the Belarusian Cyber Partisans and Ukraine’s Silent Crow. Rosstat confirmed it had been hit by cyberattacks between October 29 and November 1, but said it found no evidence that its databases had been compromised or that protected data leaked. Deaths can take months, and sometimes years, to be registered, in Russia.