Russia Records 11,335 Foreign Nationals Killed Fighting for Its Army, Leaked Files Reveal

Russia registered the deaths of more than 11,000 foreign citizens from nearly 100 countries since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Confidential records from Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), reviewed by Bloomberg, were obtained by the Belarusian group Cyber Partisans and the Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow.

The foreign deaths were part of nearly 400,000 war-related fatalities registered by the Kremlin, specifically identifying 11,335 individuals who were born outside Russia or held foreign citizenship.

These deaths were registered between February 24, 2022, and the end of August 2026, and were linked to the war through official classification codes or text references including terms like “military operation,” “shelling,” or “drones.”

Records indicate that around 3,700 of the deceased foreign nationals were Ukrainian citizens or individuals born in Ukraine after it gained independence in 1991, with most listed addresses located in the temporarily occupied territories of eastern and southern Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.

Additionally, approximately 340 of the deceased were from African countries, with the majority of these deaths logged from 2025 onward, primarily involving citizens of Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.

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Nearly 300 entries involved Russian citizens born in Germany prior to 1992. Almost all deceased foreign military personnel were men, while 154 of the 159 recorded female deaths resided in occupied Ukrainian territories.

According to Dmytro Usov, secretary of Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Russia had recruited nearly 46,000 foreign nationals as of October. He said Ukraine had captured combatants from 59 countries, while Russia plans to recruit up to 18,500 additional foreigners in 2026.

On November 8, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) announced a new single-day record for Russian personnel casualties, reporting 801 troops killed or wounded in drone operations.

According to figures published on the SBS’s official online dashboard, Ukrainian drone operators eliminated 281 Russian soldiers and wounded another 520, marking the highest daily total reported by the force.

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