UN: 2,787 civilians killed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
As the OHCHR report reads, a total of 2,787 civilians were killed (912 men, 611 women, 61 girls, and 74 boys, as well as 67 children and 1,062 adults whose sex is yet unknown) from 4 a.m. on 24 February 2022 to 24:00 midnight on 26 April 2022. Moreover, a total of 3,152 people were injured (365 men, 296 women, 66 girls, and 73 boys, as well as 163 children and 2,189 adults whose sex is yet unknown) over the mentioned period.
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 multiple launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes.
OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, 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.
This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), and Popasna (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
On February 24, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops destroy infrastructure, massively shell residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages using artillery, MLRS, and ballistic missiles.
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