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.
