The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has documented 2,858 civilian casualties (2,788 a day before) in the country, including 1,104 (1,081) killed (from February 24 when the Russia invaded Ukraine to 24:00 midnight on March 25, 2022 (local time).
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration,” the UN said in the document.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Izium (Kharkiv region), and Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Severodonetsk and Rubizhne (Luhansk region), Trostianets (Sumy region), where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the UN said in the report.
According to confirmed UN data, some 221 men, some 221 women, 30 boys and 15 girls killed, while the sex of 51 children and 620 adults has not yet been known.
Among the 1,754 injured, some 30 girls and 24 boys, as well as 70 children, whose sex is yet unknown.
Compared to the previous day, three children were killed, and four more children were wounded, according to the UN.
OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight March 26, there were 295 (285) dead and 681 (672) injured in government-controlled territory, and 59 (59) dead and 227 (224) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics.”
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 750 (737) killed and 846 (811) wounded.
OHCHR notes the report of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, according to which as of 8 a.m. (local time) 26 March, 136 (135) children had been killed and 199 (184) injured.
OHCHR also notes the report of the Head of the Investigative Department of the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which as of 6 p.m. (local time) 25 March, 323 (306) civilians had been killed in the region, including 15 (15) children.
An increase in figures in this update compared with the previous update (as of 24:00 midnight on 24 March 2022 local time) should not be attributed to civilian casualties that occurred on 25 March only, as during the day OHCHR also corroborated casualties that occurred on previous days.
Ukraine welcomes the decision of European states to create a platform for joint gas purchases and is ready to provide its underground storage facilities to form a strategic resource reserve, Energy Minister German Haluschenko said.
“Ukraine has significant natural gas storage capacity – our underground storage facilities are the largest in Europe. In our Regional Energy Partnership initiative, RESP, we propose to use our underground gas storage facilities to create a strategic gas reserve for European countries,” he wrote on his Facebook on Saturday.
According to him, despite the full-scale military aggression by Russia, Ukraine continues to be a powerful and reliable partner of Europe in matters of energy security.
“Joint purchase of gas and its storage in Ukrainian gas storage facilities will allow us to get rid of the dictates of a terrorist state and ensure reliable energy supplies for the entire European continent,” the Minister of Energy said.
At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that in the conclusions of the European Council meeting, the initiative to create a platform for the joint purchase of gas, on which the European countries began work, is open to Ukraine.
As reported, the system of 12 underground storage facilities of Ukrtransgaz, 100% owned by NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, with a total design capacity of 31 billion cubic meters, includes Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske UGS (17.05 billion cubic meters), Uherske (1.9 billion cubic meters), Dashavske (2.15 billion cubic meters), Oparske (1.92 billion cubic meters ), Bohorodchanske (2.3 billion cubic meters), Krasnopartyzanske (1.5 billion cubic meters), Solokivske (1.3 billion cubic meters), Olishevske (0.31 billion cubic meters), Proletarske (1 billion cubic meters), Kehychivske (0.7 billion cubic meters), Krasnopopivske (0.42 billion cubic meters) and Verhunske (0.4 billion cubic meters) located on the temporarily occupied territory.
Ukrainian athlete Olena Kostevych won golden medal at the European Shooting Championship in 10m Air Pistol Women in Norway.
“At the European Shooting Championship, Ukrainian athlete Olena Kostevych won gold! Thank you for the victory, thank you for the emotions, thank you that during the war we can still be proud of the results,” the press service of the Ministry of Youth and Sports said in a statement.
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U.S. President Joe Biden will join on Saturday a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with their Ukrainian counterparts Dmytro Kuleba and Secretary of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov, U.S. media said, citing the White House pool.
“This morning, President Biden will drop by a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Ukrainian Defense Secretary Oleksiy Reznikov,” according to the statement.
Biden is in Poland and will deliver a speech on the situation in Ukraine on Saturday evening in Warsaw.
A field hospital manufactured in Estonia with the financial support of Germany has opened in Ukraine, the Estonian Ministry of Defense has said.
“The military field hospital sent to Ukraine is now working as intended. This small and mobile hospital can quickly get to where it is needed. Made in Estonia with German financial support,” the ministry said on Saturday.
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