Putin reeling as huge leak shares staggering Russian death toll in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin's devastating battlefield losses have been laid bare in a huge cyber attack revealing that as many as 450,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine. In a humiliating blow to Moscow's tightly guarded wartime secrecy, hackers infiltrated the Russian state statistics agency, Rosstat, and extracted thousands of sensitive records detailing official death certificates logged between February 2022 and August this year. The joint cyber operation was executed by pro-Ukrainian activist group Silent Crow alongside the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, both of which are officially outlawed by the Kremlin as extremist outfits. Silent Crow analysed the compromised registries and calculated the Russian death toll at a staggering 450,100 troops.