Ukraine war: 400,000 Russian deaths, the toll Vladimir Putin tried to hide
Le Monde · 10 Nov 2026

Ukraine war: 400,000 Russian deaths, the toll Vladimir Putin tried to hide

Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers managed to infiltrate the computers of Rosstat, Russia's official statistics agency. The figures they uncovered, published by Bloomberg, are based on death certificates linked to the 'special military operation' – the official Russian term for the war in Ukraine. The tally underreports the true scale of Russian losses.


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