Losses among civilians from February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to 24:00 on March 16, 2022, included 2,032 civilians (in a report a day earlier - 1,900), including 780 dead (726), the Office of the High Commissioner UN Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Wednesday evening.

"OHCHR believes that the real numbers are much higher, especially in government-controlled territory, and especially in recent days, as information from some places where there has been intense fighting has been delayed, and many reports are still awaiting confirmation," the report said.

According to it, this applies, for example, to Volnovakha and Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Severodonetsk and Rubizhne (Luhansk region), Trostianets (Sumy region), where there are reports of numerous civilian casualties. They are subject to further verification and are not included in the above statistics.

"The majority of civilian deaths or injuries were caused by the use of explosive devices, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, as well as missile and air strikes," the report says.

According to confirmed UN data, 146 men, 111 women, 15 boys and seven girls died, while the sex of 36 children and 465 adults has not yet been determined.

Among the 1,252 injured were 17 girls and seven boys, as well as 44 children, whose gender has not yet been determined.

Compared with the previous day, according to the UN, six children were killed and three were injured.

OHCHR indicates that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight March 17, there were 162 (143) dead and 472 (463) injured in Russia-occupied areas, and 46 (43) dead and 174 (131) injured in territory controlled by Russia-occupation forces.

In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 572 (540) dead and 606 (580) wounded.

The summary also states that, according to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, as of 09:00 on March 17, some 108 children were killed and more than 120 were injured.

OHCHR also notes the report of the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which, as of 18:00 on March 16, some 244 civilians, including 13 children, had died in the region.

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 16, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, the document specifies.