OHCHR records 9,177 civilians killed in Ukraine since Russian invasion started

The relevant statement was made by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

In particular, among the victims whose sex was known, there were 4,202 men, 2,506 women, 281 boys and 225 girls.

The regions with the highest numbers of civilian casualties were as follows: Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, and Luhansk.

According to the OHCHR, actual numbers of civilian casualties are considerably higher, as many reports of individual civilian casualties in certain locations are still pending corroboration. Such locations include the Donetsk region’s Mariupol, and the Luhansk region’s Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk.

The highest monthly numbers of civilian casualties occurred in March and April 2022. The numbers then decreased gradually, reaching their lowest level in February 2023. Most casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects.

A reminder that the UN’s Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) stated earlier that three times as many civilians were killed in the last 500 days as during the entire previous 8 years of hostilities in eastern Ukraine.