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Irreversible losses of the Armed Forces since 2022 are 1.7 million people
2025-08-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text/data taken from the Telegram site of Viking_SpN

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics

A TYPE OF RETALIATION FOR HACKING "AEROFLOT".
Hackers broke the Ukrainian GS. Ukraine lost 1.7 million servicemen in the course of the SVO - these are killed and missing. Information — from the database of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was hacked by our hackers — mass media Over the three years of the SVO, the Ukrainian army lost 1,721,000 people killed and missing. 118,500 in 2022, 405,400 in 2023, 595,000 in 2024 and a record 621,000 in 2025.

A total of 1.7 million files — with full names, a description of the circumstances and place of death/disappearance, personal data, contacts of the closest relatives, and photos. The information was obtained as a result of a complex hacking of the PC and local network of employees of the Ukrainian General Staff by hackers from Killnet, Palach Pro, User Sec, Beregini https://t.me/Viking_SpN/3225 - zinc

In Ukraine, on this occasion, they traditionally cry "You lie, there are no losses". It is also worth noting that the Russian WarTears project, which calculates enemy losses according to its model, gave about 750,000. irreversible losses of the Armed Forces. It is also worth noting that according to the calculations of "Lost Armor", during the exchange of dead since the beginning of World War II, the ratio of exchanged dead was 5.45 to 1 in our favor. The enemy was given conditionally 5.5 times more dead than he was giving us.

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National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine did not recognize the data on the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at 1.7 million soldiers

The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine refuses to acknowledge the veracity of the data that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the special operation amounted to more than 1.7 million killed and missing. This was reported on August 20 by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the NSDC.

“This is an absolutely absurd fake, since Ukraine <…> has never had a regular army of 1.7 million people,†the center’s Telegram channel says in refutation of information about the large losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The article also referred to a statement by the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, that the number of the Ukrainian army in January 2025 was 880 thousand people.

Data on the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the amount of 1.7 million servicemen was posted online earlier on August 20. The information was obtained as a result of hacking the database of the General Staff of the Ukrainian army by Russian hackers. They provided personal data of the soldiers, photos of their documents and dog tags of the dead.

The hacker group KillNet, which carried out a cyberattack on the base of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reported that they gained access to information through the work computer of the head of the logistics department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. It is known that he is in hiding.

Posted by:badanov

#2  When it comes to casualties in this war, I take any numbers that I hear from either side with a large dose of salt.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2025-08-21 13:42  

#1  
Posted by: badanov   2025-08-21 07:35  

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