The Moscow Times reports on leaked Rosstat data indicating, per official figures, over 450,000 Russian war deaths in Ukraine since 2022, a figure analysts say makes it Russia's deadliest conflict since World War II. The data, stolen by hacking groups and partially unverifiable, shows deaths climbing yearly and falling hardest on Russia's ethnic republics, whose recruits researcher Maria Vyushkova says the Kremlin's policies amount to exterminating.