The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 9,394 civilian casualties in Ukraine: 4,253 killed and 5,141 injured since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
According to OHCHR, this included:
- a total of 4,253 killed (1,617 men, 1,064 women, 100 girls, and 105 boys, as well as 67 children and 1,300 adults whose sex is yet unknown)
- a total of 5,141 injured (1,044 men, 716 women, 118 girls, and 145 boys, as well as 170 children and 2,948 adults whose sex is yet unknown)
- In Donetsk and Luhansk regions: 5,393 casualties (2,455 killed and 2,938 injured)
- On Government-controlled territory: 4,602 casualties (2,303 killed and 2,299 injured)
- On territory controlled by Russian affiliated armed groups: 791 casualties (152 killed and 639 injured)
- In Donetsk and Luhansk regions: 5,393 casualties (2,455 killed and 2,938 injured)
- In other regions of Ukraine (the city of Kyiv, and Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Rivne, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions), which were under Government control when casualties occurred: 4,001 casualties (1,798 killed and 2,203 injured)
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 multiple launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes, the agency said.
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, 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 agency said. “This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), and Popasna (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties,” it added.
The OHCHR said the actual number of civilians killed is likely to be far higher than the number provided.
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