Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to 24:00 on April 19 amounted to 5,121 civilians (4,966 in the report a day earlier), including 2,224 dead (2,104), reports the Office of the High Commissioner UN Human Rights on Tuesday.
The daily summary traditionally states that the increase in figures from the previous summary should not be attributed only to the cases that occurred on April 19, since during the day OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days, however, the increase in the number of deaths is the second largest the largest during the entire war.
“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), 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, 631 men, 383 women, 61 boys and 42 girls died, while the sex of 70 children and 1037 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 2,897 injured were 59 girls and 64 boys, as well as 157 children whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, according to the UN, three children were killed and three more were injured.
OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 20, there were 746 (660) dead and 1,078 (1,070) injured in government-controlled territory, and 79 (79) dead and 325 (320) 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 1399 (1365) dead and 1494 (1472) wounded .
The report also states that, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, as of 8:00 am on April 20, 205 (205) children were killed, 373 (367) were injured.
Losses among civilians from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, until 24:00 on April 17 amounted to 4890 civilians (in the summary three days earlier – 4577), including 2072 dead (1982), reports the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights person on Monday.
“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), Popasna (Luhansk region) and Borodyanka (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, 537 men, 327 women, 60 boys and 38 girls died, while the sex of 71 children and 1039 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 2,818 injured were 56 girls and 61 boys, as well as 155 children whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to three days earlier, seven children were killed and 16 others were injured, according to the UN.
OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 18, there were 653 (637) dead and 1,059 (1,040) injured in government-controlled territory, and 79 (79) dead and 312 (291) 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, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 1340 (1266) dead and 1447 (1320) wounded .
The report also states that, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, as of 8:00 am on April 18, 205 (198) children were killed, 362 (355) were injured.
The report, which was released for the first time after a two-day break, traditionally indicates that the increase in indicators in it should not be attributed to the previous report only for cases that occurred on April 15-17, since during these days OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) deepens cooperation with Ukraine in the context of the blocking of its maritime agricultural exports by warships of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, the issue of the organization’s purchase of Ukrainian grain and its subsequent delivery to countries that are threatened hunger.
The relevant issue was discussed by Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky and WFP Executive Director David Muldow Beasley during a meeting in Kyiv, according to the website of the Ukrainian department on Friday.
“The possibility of purchasing surplus grains in Ukraine at the expense of the World Food Program was discussed in order to provide food for the countries of Africa and the Middle East and prevent global famine in these regions, the threat of which is very real,” the ministry said in a statement.
The agency stressed that WFP has deployed large-scale humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians affected by the war. In particular, contacts have been established with bakeries, flour mills and food industry enterprises in Ukraine for the purchase of goods from them and subsequent delivery to the regions affected by the Russian military invasion.
“We are talking about about 40 thousand tons of food products. Seven warehouses have been opened in Kyiv, Lvov, Dnipro, Vinnitsa, Chernivtsi, Odessa and Kropyvnytskyi. And in Lviv, Vinnitsa and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, financial assistance is provided to immigrants,” Beasley quotes press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
In turn, Solsky during the meeting focused on the need to unblock Ukrainian seaports and shipping routes in order to ensure the export of agricultural products from Ukraine.
“In order to stabilize the situation, it is important to ensure the logistics of supplies of agricultural products from Ukraine through unblocked ports and alternative routes. In addition, small and medium-sized Ukrainian farms and agricultural enterprises, which play a big role in ensuring national and global food security, need urgent help,” – quotes the department of its head.
As reported, on April 13, UN Secretary General António Guterres said that the war in Ukraine could doom more than 1/5 of humanity to poverty, want and hunger unprecedented for decades.
Deputy Minister of Economy – Trade Representative of Ukraine Taras Kachka stressed that the reason for the threat to world food security and rising prices for agricultural raw materials is the blockade of Ukrainian ports by Russian warships, therefore the lifting of the naval blockade of Ukraine is more effective for the food security of the world than the creation of new special funds. He stressed that Ukraine must repulse the aggressor at sea and on land, so that Ukrainian grain and oilseeds would reach the world market in full.
To date, the capacity of alternative logistics routes bypassing Ukrainian seaports is estimated at 600,000 tons of crops per month. This figure can be increased to 2-3 million tons of agricultural crops per month by increasing the capacity of railway and logistics crossings at the borders with the EU countries.
Before the Russian military invasion, Ukraine monthly exported up to 5 million tons of agricultural products through the ports of Odessa and Nikolaev, but now, due to their naval blockade by the Russian Federation, the country can transport about 500 thousand tons of grain monthly. This leads to a monthly shortfall of about $1.5 billion in export earnings.
Nova Poshta joined the UN World Food Programme (WFP), as part of cooperation, the company receives food from European countries, forms food packages from them and delivers them to settlements according to the UN vision, primarily to Ukraine’s hot spots.
As the Nova Poshta press service reported on Wednesday, the company provided its production facilities in western Ukraine for the needs of the UNHCR and the UN Refugee Agency.
It is noted that the UN is compiling a list of priority cities and towns, focusing on the places of hostilities and regions that are threatened with a humanitarian catastrophe.
As of the beginning of April (in one week of cooperation), Nova Poshta prepared and delivered about 25,000 food packages to Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.
In addition, the company transported more than 420 tonnes of household goods from the UNHCR to the IDPs.
Until the end of this month, Nova Poshta plans to deliver about 300,000 more sets to Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
“According to statistics, more than 10 million of our citizens have already been forced to leave their homes, hundreds of thousands still remain in dangerous cities and in conditions close to a humanitarian catastrophe, and we cannot stand aside. Even at the beginning of the war, we began transporting humanitarian aid across country and from abroad. We are now joining the UN programme. We are doing everything possible to make life at least a little easier for the Ukrainians most affected by the war,” Oleksandr Bulba, CEO of Nova Poshta, is quoted as saying.
In the nearest plans of the company – to start cooperation with other international organizations to provide Ukrainians with universal assistance.
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.
The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine due to the war unleashed by Russia has reached 7.1 million, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on April 6, which previously estimated this figure at 6.5 -6.7 million
“More than a quarter of Ukraine’s population has been forced to leave their homes. To date, more than 4.3 million refugees have left Ukraine, making this the fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II,” the report on its website says.
According to the UN map, there are about 2.9 million IDPs in western Ukraine, 1.4 million in the central regions on the right bank of the Dnieper, 1.3 million to the northeast of Kyiv, south near Kiev and north of Odessa and Nikolaev – 357 thousand each and on the left bank of the Dnieper in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions – 857 thousand.
As of April 9, according to the Ministry of Social Policy, about 900,000 IDPs were officially registered in Ukraine.
UNHCR also reports that as of 13:00 Kyiv time on April 9, the number of people who left Ukraine since the beginning of the war has reached 4.5 million people.
The flow to leave is gradually slowing down: if in the first 19 days of the war 3 million people left Ukraine, then it took six days to increase by another half a million, then nine, and for the last half a million, eleven days.
The UNHCR specifies that 2.59 million went to Poland, 755.3 thousand to Romania and Moldova, 419.1 thousand to Hungary, 404.4 thousand to Russia, 314.5 thousand to Slovakia, and 19 to Belarus. .1 thousand
At the same time, these data do not take into account the return flow to the entrance. According to the data, in particular, of the Polish border agency, as of the morning of April 8, since the beginning of the war, 2.573 million people have crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border, while in the opposite direction – 516 thousand, or about 20% of those who left. This allows us to roughly estimate the number of refugees from Ukraine at 3.6 million, while the UN currently predicts it at 4 million.
