Ukraine has 3,455 civilian casualties - UN

04 April 2022, 09:47 | Ukraine 
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 3,455 civilian casualties in Ukraine: 1,417 killed and 2,038 injured. Among those killed were 293 men, 201 women, 22 girls and 40 boys, as well as 59 children and 802 adults, whose sex is still unknown, according to the official website of the Organization..

We are talking about victims for the period from 4 a.m. on February 24 to 24 a.m. on April 2, 2022 (local time). The data was published on April 3.

" On the territory controlled by the government of Ukraine: 1,185 victims (401 killed and 784 injured).

In other regions of Ukraine (g. Kyiv, as well as Cherkasy, Chernigov, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kiev, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Zhytomyr regions): 1951 people (949 killed and 1002 wounded).

The actual number of victims is much higher.

Most of the recorded civilian casualties occurred as a result of the use of explosive weapons with a large area of \u200b\u200bdestruction, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, rocket and air strikes, the departments indicate in the message and add:.

" This applies, for example, to Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izyum (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region) and Irpin (Kyiv region), where there are reports of numerous civilian casualties. These figures are confirmed and are not included in the statistics above."

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OHCHR notes the report of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, according to which, as of 08:00 on April 3, 158 children were killed and at least 258 were injured.

Today we reported that about 150 thousand Ukrainians remain in the blocked Mariupol. The occupiers shoot drivers and do not allow food, water, medicines to be delivered to the cities.

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