War in Ukraine kills at least 1,480 civilians, 2,195 injured – UN
Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to April 4, 2022 amounted to 3,675 civilians (3,527 in the report a day earlier), including 1,480 killed (1,430), the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights said on Tuesday.
"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," the UN said in the document.
According to the document, this concerns, for example, Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region), and Borodianka (Kyiv region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
"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," the UN said.
According to confirmed UN data, some 331 men, some 211 women, some 40 boys and 22 girls have been killed, while the sex of 61 children and 815 adults is yet unknown.
Among the 2,195 injured were 43 girls and 40 boys, as well as 100 children hose sex is yet unknown.
Compared to the previous day, according to the UN, two children were killed and five more were injured.
OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 5, there were 407 (405) dead and 808 (793) injured in government-controlled territory, and 67 (67) dead and 257 (253) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed "republics."
In other regions of Ukraine (the city of Kyiv, and Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Zhytomyr regions), which were under Government control when casualties occurred: casualties occurred: 2,136 casualties (1,006 (958) killed and 1,130 (1,051) injured).
According to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, as of 08:00 (local time) on April 5, 165 (161) children were killed and 266 (264) were injured.
An increase in figures in this update compared with the previous update (as of 24:00 midnight on 3 April 2022 (local time) should not be attributed to civilian casualties that occurred on 4 April only, as during the day OHCHR also corroborated casualties that occurred on previous days, the OHCHR said in the document.
In turn, NATO Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo said at a meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine in New York on Tuesday that the figures speak of a tragedy in a story that has not yet been completed.
According to her, OHCHR has received credible allegations that Russian troops have used cluster munitions in populated areas in Ukraine at least 24 times. Assumptions that Ukrainian troops used such weapons are also being investigated, the NATO under-secretary-general added.
DiCarlo said that more than 10 million people in Ukraine who have been displaced either within Ukraine or abroad are refugees.
