In brief
The reported deaths span nearly 100 countries in Russia's war against Ukraine. Bloomberg's analysis points to rising foreign deaths and recruitment across several countries.
Russia registered the deaths of 11,335 foreigners in its war against Ukraine, Bloomberg reported, according to UNIAN. Bloomberg cited a database from Russia's statistics agency, Rosstat, that Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers breached and released.
The report defines foreigners as people born outside Russia or holding foreign citizenship. Recorded foreign deaths rose from approximately 630 in 2022 to more than 5,500 in 2025. UNIAN's report did not specify the cutoff date for the full total of 11,335.
About 3,700 of those recorded as foreigners were Ukrainian citizens or people born in Ukraine after independence in 1991. Most had lived in occupied areas of eastern and southern Ukraine, according to the report. Overall, around 80% of the foreign dead came from former Soviet countries.
Bloomberg also reported that the database contained no information on North Korean military deaths in Ukraine. That finding concerns the records in the database. The analysis described changes in Russian recruitment across countries, including increased recorded deaths among people from Colombia, Kenya and Nigeria since late 2025.
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