More than 30 civilians killed, almost 160 wounded in Donbas since mid-February

15:11, 13.06.2017 1 min read

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMU) has reported the death of 36 civilians and the injury of 157 civilians in the war in Donbas in the period from February 16 till May 15, 2017.

This is a 48% rise since the previous reporting period (from mid-November 2016 till mid-February 2017), and a 73% rise since the respective period of 2016, mission chief Fiona Frazer said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday, as she was presenting the 18th human rights report on Ukraine.

Some 41% of the total 193 casualties were caused by dud munitions and explosives, she said.