Losses among civilians from February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, amounted to 1,761 civilians (in the report a day earlier 1,663), including 636 dead (596), reports the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration,” the UN said in the document.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Izium (Kharkiv region), and Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region) where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the UN said in the report.
According to confirmed UN data, some 127 men, some 91 women, ten boys and six girls killed, while the gender of 30 children and 372 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 1,125 injured, some15 girls and four boys, as well as 43 children, whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, according to the UN, three children were killed and five more were injured.
OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight March 14, there were 122 (111) dead and 442 (431) injured in government-controlled territory, and 26 (26) dead and 130 (127) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics.”
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 488 (459) killed and 553 (509) wounded.
The summary also states that, according to the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights and Child Rehabilitation, as of 09:00 on March 14, 90 (85) children were killed and more than 100 children were injured in government-controlled territory.
OHCHR also notes the report of the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which, as of 18:00 on 13 March, 212 civilians (205) had died in the region.
The increase in the figures in this report compared to the figures in the previous report should not be attributed only to new cases that occurred on March 13, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, according to the document.
