UN: Russian invasion has killed 474 civilians, wounded 861
Civilian casualties from February 24, 2022 – the start of Russia's further invasion of Ukraine – through March 7, 2022 amounted to 1,335 civilians (1,207 on March 6), including 474 dead (406), The Office of the High Commissioner United Nations Human Rights Organization (OHCHR) has said.
"OHCHR believes that the real figures are considerably higher, especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, as the receipt of information from some locations where intensive hostilities have been going on was delayed and many reports were still pending corroboration," the report says.
This concerns, for example, the town of Volnovakha, Mariupol and Izium, where hundreds of civilian casualties have been alleged. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
"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 multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes," the report says.
According to confirmed UN data, 97 men, 54 women, eight boys and four girls died, while the sex of 15 children and 257 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 861 injured, 11 girls and three boys, as well as 30 children, whose gender has not yet been determined.
During the day, according to the UN, the number of dead children increased by two, injured – by two.
OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on March 8, there were 72 (70) dead and 337 (324) injured in government-controlled territory, and 24 (23) dead and 112 (111) injured in Russia-occupied areas of eastern Ukraine.
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 378 (313) dead and 412 (366) wounded.
The increase in figures in this report compared to the figures in the previous report should not be attributed only to new cases that occurred on March 6, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, the report says.
