The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Sunday that 1,119 civilians had so far been killed and 1,790 wounded since Russia began its attack on Ukraine.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 2,909 civilian casualties in the country: 1,119 killed and 1,790 injured. This included:
- According to the OHCHR report, a total of 1,119 killed (224 men, 168 women, 15 girls, and 32 boys, as well as 52 children and 628 adults whose sex is yet unknown).
- A total of 1,790 injured (201 men, 150 women, 32 girls, and 24 boys, as well as 70 children and 1,313 adults whose sex is yet unknown).
- In Donetsk and Luhansk regions: 1,281 casualties (360 killed and 921 injured)
- On Government-controlled territory: 995 casualties (301 killed and 694 injured)
- On territory controlled by the self-proclaimed ‘republics’: 286 casualties (59 killed and 227 injured)
- In other regions of Ukraine (the city of Kyiv, and Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Zhytomyr regions), which were under Government control when casualties occurred: 1,628 casualties (759 killed and 869 injured)
- In Donetsk and Luhansk regions: 1,281 casualties (360 killed and 921 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 ONHCR said in a statement.
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