War in Ukraine kills at least 516 civilians, 908 wounded – UN
Losses among civilians since February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, until 00:00 on March 8, 2022, amounted to 1,424 civilians (some 1,335in the report a day earlier), including 516 killed (474), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
"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 intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration," the office said in the document.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Volnovakha, Mariupol, Izyum, where hundreds of civilians were reportedly killed or wounded. They are subject to further verification 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 OHCHR said in the statement.
According to confirmed UN data, some 98 men, some 60 women, nine boys and five girls killed, while the gender of 23 children and 321 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 908 wounded, some 12 girls and four boys, as well as 34 children, whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared with the previous day, according to the UN, the number of dead children increased by ten, wounded by six.
OHCHR says that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on March 9, there were 87 (72) killed and some 349 (337) injured in government-controlled territory, and 24 (24) killed and 113 (112) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed "republics."
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 405 (378) dead and 446 (412) wounded.
According to the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights and Child Rehabilitation, as of 00:00 on March 8, some 41 children killed and 76 were wounded in government-controlled territory.
In addition, OHCHR said the report of the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which, as of 18:00 on March 8, some 170 civilians were killed in the region, including five children, and 368 people were 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 8, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, according to the document.