Civilian casualties from February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to 24:00 on March 12, 2022, amounted to 1,663 civilians (in the summary a day earlier it was 1,581), including 596 dead (579), the Office of the High Commissioner UN Human Rights (OHCHR) has said.

"OHCHR believes that the actual 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," OHCHR said in the report.

According to the report, this concerns, for example, Volnovakha, Mariupol, Izium, where here are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties. 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," OHCHR said.

According to confirmed UN data, 124 men, 85 women, 10 boys and six girls died, while the sex of 27 children and 344 adults has not yet been identified.

Among the 1,067 injured, are 14 girls and four boys, as well as 39 children, whose sex is yet unknown.

Compared with the previous day, according to the UN, one child died and three were injured.

OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on March 13, there were 111 (105) dead and 431 (385) injured in government-controlled territory, and 26 (25) dead and 127 (117) injured in territory controlled by Russia-occupied so-called "republics."

In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporozhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 459 (449) dead and 509 (500) wounded.

OHCHR said that according to the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights and Child Rehabilitation, as of 09:00 on March 13, 85 (79) children had been killed and more than 100 children had been injured in government-controlled territory.

OHCHR also notes the report of the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which, as of 18:00 on 12 March, 205 civilians had been killed in the region (201).

An increase in figures in this update compared with the previous update (as of 24:00 midnight on 11 March 2022 local time) should not be attributed to civilian casualties that occurred on 12 March only, as during the day OHCHR also corroborated casualties that occurred on previous days.