Russia spreads fake report of 1.7 million dead and missing Ukrainian soldiers — CCD

This was reported on Telegram by Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), under the National Security and Defense Council, according to Ukrinform.

“Kremlin-controlled propaganda outlets are spreading claims that Russian hackers allegedly breached the General Staff’s database and obtained information about ‘1.7 million dead and missing Ukrainian soldiers’ since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In reality, this is an utterly absurd fake, as Ukraine has never had a standing army of 1.7 million personnel throughout its independence,” the statement reads.

According to the General Staff of Ukraine, as of August 20, 2025, Russian forces have suffered 1,072,700 casualties — killed and wounded — since February 24, 2022, effectively debunking the fabricated figures promoted by Russian propaganda.

“The goal of this fake is to demoralize Ukrainians, convince the world of the ‘exhaustion and ineffectiveness of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,’ and weaken international support for Ukraine,” the CCD stressed.

As reported by Ukrinform, in the past 24 hours, Russian forces lost another 920 troops and 50 artillery systems in the war against Ukraine.