Leaked government data shows 450,000 Russians killed in war

More than 450,000 Russians have been killed in Russia’s war on Ukraine, according to figures released Saturday by hackers claiming to have breached Russia’s state statistics agency, Rosstat. The Russian government acknowledged that Rosstat had suffered a recent cyberattack but denied that its databases were compromised. However, the figures broadly align with outside assessments, including those of British intelligence, which estimated in September that 500,000 Russian troops had been killed and that total casualties, including the wounded, had reached 1.5 million. The staggering number of Russians killed and wounded provides yet more evidence of President Vladimir Putin’s determination to conquer Ukraine regardless of the human cost on either side.