UN records almost 18,000 civilian casualties in Ukraine

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 17,831 civilian casualties in Ukraine since the beginning of war until Dec. 26, including 6,884 killed and 10,947 injured.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, including shelling from heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes,” the OHCHR said in a statement.
The actual figures are likely considerably higher, as information from some locations where hostilities are especially intense has been delayed and many reports are still awaiting corroboration, the statement added, reports Gulf Times.
From February 24, when Moscow launched its full-scale invasion, to December 26, there were 17,831 civilian
casualties recorded in the country: 6,884 killed and 10,947 injured.
Among the killed were 429 children, the UN agency said in a statement late Tuesday.
According to figures provided by the OHCHR, 6,884 civilians have been killed and 10,947 injured since the start of Moscow’s invasion.
The UN agency added that the actual toll was “considerably higher.”
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, including shelling from heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes,” the OHCHR said.
In total, more than 35,000 facilities across the country have been destroyed as a result of Russian attacks, Yenin said on television late Tuesday.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, including shelling from heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes,” it said.
The hardest-hit area was the Donbass, which comprises the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russian forces have indiscriminately shelled and bombed populated areas, killing civilians and destroying hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure, the UN has said previously. In recent months, Moscow has gone after energy and water infrastructure.