Ukraine war: 400,000 Russian deaths, the toll Vladimir Putin tried to hide
Le Monde reports that hackers breached Russia's statistics agency Rosstat, uncovering a figure the Kremlin had kept secret: nearly 400,000 Russian deaths from the war since the February 2022 invasion. Bloomberg cited the Belarusian Cyber Partisans and pro-Ukrainian Silent Crow collective, who analyzed 11 million death records, many explicitly tied to the 'special military operation', shelling, or drones.