{"id":603347,"date":"2026-11-13T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=603347"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:41:52","slug":"cyber-partisans-estimate-number-of-belarusians-killed-fighting-on-russia-s-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/cyber-partisans-estimate-number-of-belarusians-killed-fighting-on-russia-s-side","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Partisans Estimate Number Of Belarusians Killed Fighting On Russia\u2019s Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 730 Belarusian citizens have been killed fighting on Russia\u2019s side. This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/cpartisans_by\/1767\">conclusion<\/a> reached by the Cyber Partisans group after analyzing Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) databases, leaks from Belarusian state registers and information from the \u201cI Want to Live\u201d project.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cyber Partisans, they identified 503 Belarusian citizens in Rosstat\u2019s database of deceased people who had died by August 2026. Another 15 people were identified through Belarusian databases, which have recorded deaths attributed to \u201cmilitary\u201d causes since 2022. These records cover the period through the end of 2024. The group also used data from the Ukrainian \u201cI Want to Live\u201d project, which reported that another 212 Belarusian citizens who had fought on Russia\u2019s side had been killed by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the total number of identified fatalities between 2022 and 2026 stands at at least 730.<\/p>\n<p>The group stressed that the figure includes only cases that could be documented. The hacktivists estimate that the actual number of Belarusian citizens killed may be significantly higher.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe average annual losses among citizens of the Republic of Belarus in the current war are approximately twice as high as in Afghanistan,\u201d<\/i> the Cyber Partisans said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 730 Belarusian citizens have been killed fighting on Russia\u2019s side. This is the conclusion reached by the Cyber Partisans group after analyzing Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) databases, leaks from Belarusian state registers and information from the \u201cI Want to Live\u201d project. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":527968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af73dd57cb59.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Cyber Partisans Estimate Number Of Belarusians Killed Fighting On Russia\u2019s Side"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143121],"class_list":["post-603347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603350,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603347\/revisions\/603350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}