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.
