Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to March 31, 2022 amounted to 3,257 civilians (3,167 in the report a day earlier), including 1,276 dead (1,232), reports the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights on Friday.
“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, 260 men, 184 women, 36 boys and 18 girls died, while the sex of 61 children and 717 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 1981 wounded were 38 girls and 34 boys, as well as 88 children whose sex has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, according to the UN, three children were killed and eleven more were injured.
OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 1, there were 358 (338) dead and 772 (743) injured in government-controlled territory, and 67 (66) dead and 246 (245) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics”.
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (in Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kiev, Sumy, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 851 (826) dead and 963 (947) injured .
The summary also states that, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, as of 08:00 on April 1, 153 (148) children were killed and 245 (232) 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 March 31, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, the document specifies.
