Losses among civilians since February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, until April 1, 2022, amounted to 3342 civilians (in the report a day earlier – 3257), including 1325 dead (1276), reports the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Saturday. “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 and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izyum (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region), Irpin (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, 268 men, 189 women, 36 boys and 20 girls died, while the gender of 64 children and 748 adults has not yet been determined. Among the 2017 injured, 39 girls and 35 boys, as well as 94 children, whose gender has not yet been determined. Compared to the previous day, five children were killed and eight more were injured, according to the UN. OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 2, there were 381 (358) dead and 793 (772) injured in government-controlled territory, and 67 (67) dead and 246 (246) 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 877 (851) dead and 978 (963) injured . The summary also states that, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, as of 08:00 on April 2, 158 (153) children were killed and 254 (245) were injured. The increase in indicators in this report compared to the figures in the previous report should not be attributed only to new cases that occurred on April 1, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, the document specifies.
