UN: About 9,300 civilians killed in Ukraine since war started

According to confirmed data, about 9,300 civilians have been killed and more than 16,300 have been injured since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, [since the beginning of Russian invasion] 9,287 civilians have been killed and 16,384 injured, most under Russian armed forces fire," Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, said at the UN Security Council meeting on July 17, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

According to her, this number includes 537 killed and 1,117 injured children.

The diplomat said that those were only confirmed figures and the real number of victims was probably much higher.

Dicarlo added that Ukraine was the country with the highest number of children killed and maimed and the highest number of strikes on schools and hospitals in 2022.

As reported, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine stated that three times more civilians had been killed over the past 500 days compared to all the previous eight years of hostilities in eastern Ukraine.