Losses among civilians from February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to 24:00 on March 29, 2022, amounted to 3090 civilians (in the summary of the day before – 3039), including 1189 dead (1179), reports the Office of the High Commissioner UN Human Rights on Wednesday.
“UNHCHR believes that the real numbers are much higher, especially in government-controlled territory, and especially in recent days, as information from some places where there has been intense fighting has been delayed, and many reports are still awaiting confirmation,” it said. in the document.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izyum (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region), Trostyanets (Sumy 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, 239 men, 172 women, 34 boys and 17 girls died, while the sex of 57 children and 670 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 1901 wounded, 36 girls and 30 boys, as well as 76 children, the sex of which has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, four children were killed and eight more were injured, according to the UN.
OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight March 30, there were 328 (326) dead and 727 (716) injured in government-controlled territory, and 65 (62) dead and 243 (233) 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 796 (791) dead and 931 (911) injured .
The report also states that, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, as of 08:00 on March 30, 145 (144) children were killed and 222 (220) 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 March 29, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, the document specifies.
