Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to 00:00 on April 24 amounted to 5,718 civilians (in the previous report on Friday some 5,381), including 2,665 killed (2,435), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Monday.
The daily summary traditionally states that the increase in the previous summary should not be attributed only to the cases on April 22 to April 24, since during this period the office verified a number of cases from previous days.
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, 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 document.
According to him, this concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), and Popasna (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous 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 multiple launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the UN said.
According to confirmed UN data, some 855 men, 563 women, 69 boys and 59 girls killed, while the gender of 67 children and 1,052 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 3,053 wounded were 71 boys and 64 girls, as well as 161 children whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to Friday’s report, some 11 children were killed and ten more wounded, according to the UN.
OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 25, there were 1,136 (933) killed and 1,132 (1,097) wounded in government-controlled territory, and 81 (79) killed and 341 (330) wounded in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics.”
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (in Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 1,448 (1,423) killed and some 1,580 (1,519) wounded.
