Hackers from the pro-Ukrainian collective Silent Crow and the Belarusian Cyber Partisans breached Russia's Rosstat statistics bureau, and the leaked mortality records lead Silent Crow to estimate 450,100 Russian service members killed since February 2022 — far above Moscow's last official count of under 6,000, given in September 2022. The disclosure comes as Russia's October losses hit record levels and strikes on Kyiv wound nine ahead of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi.