The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has documented 2,149 civilian casualties (2,032 a day before) in the country, including 816 (780) killed (from February 24 when the Russia invaded Ukraine to 24:00 midnight on March 17, 2022 (local time).

"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," the UN said in the document.

According to him, this applies, for example, to Izium (Kharkiv region), and Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Severodonetsk and Rubizhne (Luhansk region), Trostianets (Sumy region), where there 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," the UN said in the report.

According to confirmed UN data, some 142 men, some 116 women, 16 boys and seven girls killed, while the sex of 36 children and 489 adults has not yet been known.

Among the 1,333 injured, some 17 girls and seven boys, as well as 50 children, whose sex is yet unknown.

Compared to the previous day, one child was killed, and six more children were wounded, according to the UN.

OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight March 18, there were 172 (162) dead and 503 (472) injured in government-controlled territory, and 50 (46) dead and 178 (174) 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, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 594 (572) killed and 652 (606) wounded.

OHCHR notes the report of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, according to which as of 10 a.m. (local time) 18 March, 109 children had been killed and more than 130injured.

The increase in the figures in this report compared to the figures in the previous report should not be attributed only to new cases that occurred on March 17, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, according to the document.