The UN has confirmed the deaths of 1,417 civilians in the US since Russian troops invaded. Ukraine documented. Among them were 121 children and young people UN High Commissioner for human rights in Geneva. In this sense, information was also verified on 2,038 injured people, including 171 children and adolescents. All cases documented up to and including Saturday were included in the numbers. Russia began attacking Ukraine on 24 February.
1,504 of the victims came from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine. However, the office assumes that the actual numbers are significantly higher: in some heavily contested places, many reports of civilian casualties have yet to be confirmed, including Mariupol and Irpin.
“The majority of civilian casualties were caused by the use of long-range explosive weapons, including heavy artillery and rocket launches, as well as missiles and air strikes,” the statement said on Sunday.
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