Over 11K Foreign Fighters Killed in Ukraine – Rosstat Leaks– www.themoscowtimes.com
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More than 11,000 foreign nationals fighting for Russia have been killed in the four and a half years of war in Ukraine, according to leaked records from the state statistics agency Rosstat reviewed by Bloomberg.
The data is part of last month’s cyberattack by Belarusian and Ukrainian hacker groups on Rosstat, which revealed that more than 450,000 Russians have been killed since the 2022 invasion.
The foreign deaths were recorded between Feb. 24, 2022, and late August 2026, according to Bloomberg.
Of the 11,335 foreign fatalities, just over 6,000 of those killed were born outside Russia but had obtained Russian citizenship prior to their deaths. Moscow offers fast-track naturalization in exchange for military service.
Around 3,700 of the dead were Ukrainian citizens or were born in post-Soviet Ukraine, with most of them living in Russian-occupied eastern and southern Ukraine.
