How many Belarusians died in the war with Ukraine? More than 1600, but how many more?

Cyberpartisans and the SilentCrow community hacked the Rosstat website and uploaded terabytes of information from it, including data on citizen deaths. This data allows for a more accurate assessment of the number of people killed in the war with Ukraine.

Cyberpartisans, using their methodology, counted a minimum of 393,881 dead, while SilentCrow reports 450,100 people.

These are people whose death codes in the database are marked as "military operations," "death during military actions," "as a result of a terrorist act," and so on.

The calculations are published on the website Rosstat Leaks. A search by death certificates is also available here. The documents do not contain the names of the deceased; the date and place of birth, as well as the place and cause of death, are indicated.

In the database, under the keyword "Belarus," there are 1321 entries; "BSSR" — 138; "Belorussky/Belorusskaya" — 136; "Belorussia" — 29; "Belorus'' — 16; and "Belarusia" — 3. Based on these words alone, 1643 deceased are counted.

However, it is not possible to assume that 1643 Belarusians died in the war. Who was not included in the count?

Firstly, there are discrepancies in filling out death certificates.

The place of birth is also recorded there, but registrars arbitrarily choose which information to indicate.

For example, in the database, there are nine natives of the Lahoysk district. But only in three of their entries is there a reference to Belarus (albeit in one of the spellings). In the other six, only the Minsk region and district are named.

However, in the Klyetsk district, only two out of eight natives do not have the "Belarus" designation.

Thus, upon re-checking the database for all Belarusian districts, the number of deceased natives of Belarus increases by hundreds of people.

Secondly, the database primarily contains citizens of Russia born in Belarus (or at least those who permanently lived in Russia before the war and were registered there). If a citizen of Belarus went to the front from Belarus, then they are not among the dead.

For example, in the database of the deceased, there is no one whose birth date matches that of the killed Ivan Us, the son of former presidential candidate Dzmitry Us. Although in Belarusian databases, he has long been marked as deceased.

Also missing is 22-year-old Vital Chibisov from Klyetsk, who was recruited immediately after demobilization. He was buried in Maladzyechna, therefore, he is naturally not in the Russian civil registry offices' database.

19-year-old Ministry of Internal Affairs Academy cadet Ivan Lomonosov, who tattooed a target on his forehead and went to storm Zaporizhzhia, was born in the village of Luhavaya Slabada. But there is no one deceased under such a toponym.

How many such Belarusians did not make it into the Russian lists is unknown. But most likely, we should be talking not about dozens, but hundreds of people.

Thirdly, the Rosstat Leaks database reflects not only the 450,100 people whom analysts consider to have died in the war.

In addition to them, approximately 45,000 people who died near the zone of military operations are also shown as reference. For example, a 75-year-old native of Belarus, whose cause of death was oncology. It makes no sense to count her among the war victims (indeed, analysts do not count her as deceased), but in the general list of those "1643 Belarusians," she is also shown.

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