Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to 24:00 on May 11 amounted to 7,326 civilians (a day earlier – 7,256), including 3,541 dead (3,496), reports the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Thursday.
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are much higher as information is delayed from some areas of heavy fighting and many reports are still awaiting confirmation,” the UN data document notes.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izyum (Kharkiv region) and Popasna (Luhansk region), where there are reports of numerous civilian casualties. They are subject to further verification and are not included in the above statistics.
“The majority of civilian deaths or injuries were caused by the use of explosive devices with a wide area of effect, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, as well as rocket and air strikes,” the report says.
According to confirmed UN data, 1,300 men, 844 women, 93 boys and 77 girls died, while the sex of 69 children and 1,158 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 3,785 injured were 98 boys and 90 girls, as well as 167 children whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to the report the day before, one child died and seven more were injured.
OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on May 12, there were 1,781 (1,750) dead and 1,473 (1,466) injured in government-controlled territory, and 116 (115) dead and 476 (462) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics”.
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (in Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporozhye, Kyiv, Sumy, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 1644 (1631) dead and 1836 (1832) wounded .
The daily summary has traditionally stated that the increase in numbers from the previous summary should not be attributed only to the May 11 cases, since during this period the Office verified a number of cases from previous days.
