Data leak suggests 4.5 lakh Russians killed since Ukraine war began: Report

A data leak from Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) revealed that around 450,000 Russian citizens may have been killed since the Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022. If verified, the figures would make the war Russia’s deadliest conflict since World War II. Rosstat had stopped publishing annual data on causes of death from 2024 onwards.