While Russia continues its invasion of Ukrainethe stories and photographs of those killed began to show the human victims of the war.
Ukraine’s interior minister said 352 civilians were killed and more than 1,600 wounded last Sunday, just four days after the invasion began.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Liz Trossel said they had managed to “cross-check” only 136 people, including 13 children, but acknowledged that the death toll “is likely to be much higher”.
Trosel added that another 400 people – including 26 children – had been injured in the fighting.
She blames much of the deaths on the use of explosives with wide areas of impact and heavy artillery shelling, as well as missile systems with multiple launches and air strikes.
Evgeny Malishev, a 19-year-old Ukrainian biathlete, has been pronounced dead in a battle in Kharkiv
Six-year-old Sofia, the daughter of police officer Oleg Fedko, was killed along with her mother and her weekly brother in an attempt to escape.
Marina Kalabina, an anesthesiologist in the Kiev region, died in the shelling of Russian troops, which Trosel mentioned
Police officers Oleg’s parents, Fedko Oleg and Anna, were also killed in the attack
10-year-old Polina was on display as one of the first victims of the invasion. She and her parents were shot dead by a Russian sabotage intelligence group that opened fire on their family car, Kyiv Deputy Mayor Vladimir Bondarenko said.
Reports began to emerge identifying some of those killed as the invasion drew its second week.
Evgeny Malishev, a 19-year-old Ukrainian biathlete, was killed in a battle in Kharkiv. He according to reports left the national team two years ago to join the armed forces.
Marina Kalabina, an anesthesiologist in the Kiev region, died in the shelling of Russian troops, which Trosel mentions.
A Ukrainian police officer named Oleg Fedko lost five members of his own family in a Russian movement from Crimea, according to Sky News.
Fedko’s family – including a 6-year-old daughter named Sofia, a baby named Ivan, his wife Irina, father Oleg and mother Anna – were all killed.
The family was trying to escape in a pair of cars when the attacks were against them on the outskirts of Kherson, according to Ukrainian news outlet.
A 10-year-old girl named Polina was shot while trying to escape with her family, according to iNewsas her younger brother and sister were so badly injured that they had to be taken to the intensive care unit.
She and her parents were fatally shot dead by a Russian intelligence group that opened fire on their car, according to Kyiv Deputy Mayor Vladimir Bondarenko, who shared a photo of her as one of the first victims of the invasion.
Among the dead was a 6-year-old child found in his pajamas in a unicorn with her mother covered in blood.
Israeli DJ Roman Brodsky was killed in a misguided identity at a Ukrainian checkpoint, believing he was a Chechen. His father still blames “dictator” Putin
Doctors resuscitate a girl in the city hospital in Mariupol who was injured in a shooting
A woman reacts while paramedics perform CPR on a girl injured in a shelling at a city hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, February 27, 2022. The girl did not survive
Medical workers prepare to operate on people injured in shelling in a residential area, in a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol
In Okhtyrka, 7-year-old Alice Hlans was one of six children in kindergarten who were killed in an attack on her school last Friday.
Roman Brodsky, an Israeli DJ, was killed by Ukrainian troops in a misidentification, but his family still blames Putin, the man they call a “dictator.”
Brodsky, a father of two, was trying to travel to Moldova to escape back to Israel.
His father said, “They thought he was a Chechen or something,” and opened fire by mistake.
Russia’s escalating attacks on Ukraine’s populated urban areas have left ruins and debris in streets and squares as the invasion has claimed new lives across the country. The central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city was hit by what was thought to be a rocket, leaving the massive area littered with debris.
Hospitals competed to treat the victims of the bombings, even as mothers and children took refuge in their basements. As fighting raged in Ukraine, the death toll remained unclear.
At the border, frightened families said goodbye as women and children fled, and many men returned to fight. More than 675,000 people have fled to neighboring countries since the Russian invasion began, a number that will only increase, according to the UN refugee agency.
Cancer patients hold sheets of paper marked “Stop the War” in a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Ohmadet Children’s Hospital in downtown Kyiv
An oncology patient rests on a coach next to his mother
Medical teams of the Emergency Service moved a stretcher with a man wounded by the shelling in the residential area