Court authorities across 33 regions of Russia have calculated the scale of material losses the Soviet Union suffered during the Great Patriotic War. According to these findings, the total damage reached 257 trillion rubles — a figure disclosed by Russia’s Prosecutor General Aleksandr Gutsan.

He also stressed that the mass killings of civilians in Soviet territories occupied by Nazi forces have been legally recognized as genocide. Gutsan noted that courts confirmed extensive destruction amounting to the multitrillion-ruble total, while emphasizing that no financial assessment can reflect the shattered lives, the deaths of millions of innocent people, or the generational losses endured by the country.

Gutsan recalled that the Nuremberg Trials established the legal definition of genocide as a crime against humanity, and that the tribunal’s verdict remains indisputable evidence of the large-scale extermination of the Soviet population.

The prosecutor general further pointed to attempts by certain political groups to distort the memory of wartime victims and heroes and to rewrite the history of the Great Victory. He referenced the nationwide initiative «No Statute of Limitations», designed to preserve historical truth, and expressed gratitude to Belarusian authorities for supporting these efforts. One example he highlighted was the opening of a memorial to genocide victims in the Gatchina district.

It is worth noting that in 2016, Aleksandr Zvyagintsev — vice president of the International Association of Prosecutors and former Russian deputy prosecutor general — stated that the human losses of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War amounted to 50 million people, including both direct and indirect casualties.