Fake news about 1.7 million Ukrainian military personnel killed and missing - Kremlin disinformation – CPD
Kyiv • UNN
The Center for Countering Disinformation refutes the fake news about 1.7 million Ukrainian military personnel killed. As of January 2025, Ukraine's army numbered 880,000 people, and Russian losses significantly exceed Ukrainian ones.
Kremlin propaganda resources are spreading fake information about allegedly 1.7 million Ukrainian military personnel killed and missing.
In fact, as of January 2025, the entire army of Ukraine numbered 880,000 people, according to the Center for Countering Disinformation, reports UNN.
Propaganda resources controlled by the Kremlin are spreading claims that Russian hackers allegedly hacked the database of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and obtained information about "1.7 million killed and missing Ukrainian military personnel" during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In fact, this is an absolutely absurd fake
Why - because Ukraine has never had a regular army of 1.7 million people during its years of independence.
As of January 2025, according to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the strength of the Ukrainian army was 880,000 people
The President of Ukraine also reported that the losses of Russian servicemen are three times higher than the losses of Ukrainian soldiers.
According to the General Staff, as of August 20, 2025, Russians have "lost 1,072,700 people killed and wounded" since February 24, 2022, which negates the fabricated figures of Russian propagandists regarding Ukraine's losses.
The purpose of this fake is to demoralize Ukrainians, convince the world of the "exhaustion and ineffectiveness of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" and weaken its international support