🇷🇺 🇺🇦 450,100+ people killed—the price of Russia’s war against Ukraine
A hacker claims to have hacked Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) database. From the collected data, he calculated the total number of war-related deaths registered by Russian civil registries through 28.08.2026.
- 356,056 with ICD-10 code Y36 “operations of war”
- 38,229 by combat sequelae or code Y89.1
- 18,291 by the “died in military operations” field
- 14,160 non-combat deaths of service members
- 13,671 registered in Russia, died in occupied territory, no cause
- 9,118 from records without a stated cause
- 575 by the “terrorist act” field
21.7% of records are in the Volga district. 54.9% died in Donetsk People’s Republic.
Extrapolating, the hacker surmises that, by the end of the year, the database will hold 508,799 to 542,708 military deaths. Furthermore, counting the delay needed for data to arrive to Rosstat, 54,180 records have not yet arrived, so the correct number of deaths as of 28.08.2026 should be considered to be more like 504.280.
As per Rosstat, war is the 4th cause of death in the country over these years. The top 10 causes of death in Russia:
- 2,217,461: I25 · Chronic ischemic heart disease
- 668,292: U07 · Emergency use of U07 (usually COVID-19)
- 665,012: I67 · Other cerebrovascular diseases
- 450,100: War · all military deaths
- 436,771: I63 · Cerebral infarction
- 366,422: I42 · Cardiomyopathy
- 305,044: G93 · Other disorders of brain
- 276,018: C34 · Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung
- 263,137: R99 · Ill-defined and unknown cause of mortality
- 262,146: E11 · Type 2 diabetes mellitus
This makes sense. Apparently, Rosstat keeps unfalsified statistics but doesn’t publish them. It does make sense because the Western estimates of 1.4-1.5M (or whatever the latest figure is) conflate everything:
- those fatally injured;
- those injured and sent home with permanent disabilities;
- those injured, but “fixed” and returned to the battlefield;
- those injured, “fixed” and returned to the battlefield, then injured again—counted twice;
- those injured, “fixed” and returned to the battlefield, then fatally injured—counted twice.
The interesting figure is this one: 14,160 non-combat deaths of service members.