At least 3,589 foreigners have died in the war in Ukraine on the side of Russia. They come from more than 40 countries: from Ecuador and the USA to Vietnam and Sri Lanka. This was reported on Friday, July 10, in the results of monitoring conducted by the media company BBC in collaboration with the publication "Mediazona" and a team of volunteers. Among them, 1,285 are citizens of foreign states. Their deaths have been confirmed based on open sources: reports from authorities, publications by relatives on social media, or photographs of graves and military memorials. Another 2,304 soldiers from North Korea died during the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region in August 2024. Their data was established by the Korean service of the BBC based on satellite images and official photographs from Pyongyang depicting the military memorial to the fallen. **Top 3 CIS countries: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan** The top 3 CIS countries whose citizens died for Russia in Ukraine are Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Azerbaijan. Top 3 countries from far abroad: North Korea, Nepal, and Cuba In the list of foreign countries whose citizens died in the largest numbers for Russia in Ukraine are North Korea, Nepal, and Cuba. In addition, active recruitment was conducted among residents of India, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. The list of the deceased also includes 25 citizens of Ukraine who died at the front as part of Russian formations. They were registered in territories controlled by Ukraine at the time the war began. Most were recruited from correctional colonies. Residents of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine fighting on the side of Russia are counted separately, and their losses are not reflected in the overall summary. At the same time, of the 233,000 deceased Russian soldiers whose names have been established, citizens of foreign states make up less than 2%. NATO believes that there are about 24,000 foreign mercenaries from 44 countries fighting in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, an alliance official reported at the summit in Ankara. According to him, the majority are from African countries, writes "Deutsche Welle."