Key facts
- Ukraine's General Staff said Russia lost 2,980 soldiers killed or seriously injured on November 8, 2026, a record for one day.
- The previous daily record was 2,500 Russian personnel losses, reported on November 1, 2026, the General Staff said.
- The General Staff said Russian casualties reached 400,000 since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
- Hacker groups said leaked Rosstat records indicate 394,000 to 450,000 deaths among people fighting for Russia or linked to the war.
- A January 2026 CSIS report said Ukraine likely suffered 500,000 to 600,000 casualties from February 2022 to December 2025.
Ukraine's General Staff said on November 9, 2026 that Russia suffered a record 2,980 soldiers killed or seriously injured on the front lines on November 8. "One less invader every 29 seconds," the General Staff said on its Telegram channel.
The figure came a day after the General Staff reported Russian casualties reaching 400,000 since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. The previous record for Russian daily personnel losses was 2,500, reported a week earlier on November 1, 2026. October 2026 was the deadliest month for Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion, according to the General Staff.
"The Russian command continues to send units on suicidal assaults, while our soldiers repel these attacks day after day," the General Staff said. Neither Russia nor Ukraine has publicly disclosed its front-line casualties, citing operational secrecy.
On November 7, hacker groups Belarusian Cyberpartisans and Silent Crow said they had obtained records from the internal demography database of Russia's Federal State Statistics Service, or Rosstat, covering death certificates registered between February 2022 and August 2026. The groups, which claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Rosstat, said the leaked records indicate between 394,000 and 450,000 people fighting on Russia's side or otherwise linked to the war have died since the start of the full-scale invasion. The Kyiv Independent said it could not immediately verify the authenticity of the leaked records or the groups' casualty estimates.