The U.N.'s human rights agency 'believes that the actual figures' of civilian casualties in Ukraine 'are considerably higher.'
on Tuesday that at least 6,884 civilians had been killed and 10,947 injured in Ukraine from the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 up to December 26. The casualties include 165 deaths and 516 injuries recorded in December, most of which were caused by"the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects."
"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," OHCHR said in a news release."This concerns, for example, Mariupol , Izium , Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk , where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties.
The agency said that the confirmed dead included 2,719 men, 1,832 women and 1,904 adults whose sex could not be determined. At least 429 civilian children also perished, including 175 girls, 216 boys and 38 whose sex was unknown. Ukrainian servicemen are pictured on the left carrying human remains in a bodybag near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on September 30, 2022, while Russian military volunteers are pictured on the right during training in Rostov, Russia, on December 6, 2022. The United Nations human rights agency said on Tuesday that the Russian military was responsible for at least 6,884 civilian deaths and 10,947 civilian injuries since invading Ukraine on February 24.
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