Losses among civilians from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, until 24:00 on April 9 amounted to 4232 civilians (in the summary of the day before – 4149), including 1793 dead (1766), reports the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sunday.
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are much higher as information is delayed from some areas of intense fighting and many reports are still awaiting confirmation,” the document says.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izyum (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region) and Borodianka (Kyiv 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, 458 men, 294 women, 46 boys and 27 girls died, while the sex of 69 children and 899 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 2,439 injured were 47 girls and 46 boys, as well as 136 children whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, three children were killed and 14 more injured, according to the UN.
OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 10, there were 571 (560) dead and 963 (944) injured in government-controlled territory, and 71 (70) dead and 275 (269) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics”.
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (in Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Sumy, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 1151 (1136) dead and 1201 (1170) wounded .
The report also states that, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, as of 08:00 on April 10, 176 (176) children were killed, 336 (324) were injured.
The summary traditionally states that the increase in indicators in it to the previous report should not be attributed only to cases that occurred on April 9, since during the day OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days.
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The Cabinet of Ministers is allocating the first billion hryvnia from the Reserve Fund to restore the territories liberated from Russian troops, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
“The funds will be used to eliminate the consequences of hostilities and the priority restoration of infrastructure,” Shmyhal wrote on the Telegram channel on Sunday.
According to him, UAH 400 million is allocated for the Kiev region, UAH 250 million each for Chernihiv and Sumy regions, and another UAH 100 million for the Zhytomyr region.
The Prime Minister noted that the funds will be used to repair engineering networks and systems for the restoration of heat, gas, water, electricity, as well as to dismantle the destruction, repair roofs, replace windows and doors, eliminate potholes on roads and other urgent needs.
The funds will be managed by the civil-military administrations in each region. On the part of the government, the process will be coordinated by the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories.
“This is only the first stage, and there is still a lot of work to be done on the capital restoration of our country. We will start this immediately after the victory,” Shmyhal stressed.
Finland is ready to tighten sanctions against the Russian Federation in connection with the aggression against Ukraine, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said in an interview with Yle Ykkösaamu.
“Every day people die in Ukraine. We have to make the war stop. We have to be prepared to be flexible in our own daily lives,” she said.
“Finland supports tougher sanctions, including those covering energy policy,” she explained, adding that rising energy prices would not deter sanctions.
“45 days of war is 45 days more than necessary. Russia is waging a dishonorable war, cruel and inhumane, and it must stop,” Marin said.
A working group has been created in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to protect Ukrainian citizens who have gone abroad during the war.
“On April 9, at a government meeting, a resolution was approved on the creation of a working group to protect the rights and freedoms of citizens of Ukraine located on the territory of the EU member states and other states as temporarily displaced persons. The co-chairs of the working group were appointed Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanyshina and Minister of Social Policy Marina Lazebnaya,” the government’s press service said in a statement.
It is noted that among the tasks of the working group: the use of the Diya application in the process of making social, compensation and other payments; cancellation of roaming charges when using mobile communications abroad; providing digital consular registration of citizens during their stay abroad; provision of educational services in Ukrainian; strengthening protection mechanisms against human trafficking; creating opportunities for citizens outside of Ukraine to obtain or confirm all necessary documentation; establishing cooperation between law enforcement agencies, social protection and migration authorities of Ukraine with the relevant authorities in the EU Member States; facilitating the rapid recognition of professional qualifications and other issues.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz discussed, in particular, anti-Russian sanctions, defense and financial support for Ukraine.
“Had a phone call with @OlafScholz. They stressed that all those responsible for war crimes must be identified and punished. We discussed anti-Russian sanctions, defense and financial support for Ukraine,” Zelensky tweeted.
