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A Financial Times analysis finds at least 450,000 Russians had died in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by this summer. El País reports that two hacker groups published the underlying figures from Russia's statistics agency.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow rarely publishes military losses, so independent analyses and leaked data are the main basis for estimating how many Russians have died.
According to an analysis by the Financial Times, at least 450,000 Russians had died in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the northern-hemisphere summer of this year. El País reports that two hacker groups published the underlying figures from Russia's statistics agency.