20 days of war, 1,761 Ukrainian casualties
There have been 1,761 civilian casualties recorded so far
• There have been 1,761 civilian casualties recorded so far
• Shelling over Ukraine cities continued on Monday
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has raged on for twenty days. Even as the two countries carry out talks to reach a compromise, Russia has continued its destructive assault on its neighbor.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 1,761 civilian casualties since February 24. A total of 636 people have been killed in Ukraine, with 1,125 injured.
Of the total killed, 127 were men, 91 women, 6 girls, and 10 boys, as well as 30 children and 372 adults whose sex is yet unknown. Of the total 1,125 injured, 101 were men, 71 women, 15 girls, and 4 boys, and 43 children and 891 adults whose sex is yet unknown.
A total of 720 casualties have occurred in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of which148 were killed and 572 injured.
In other regions of Ukraine--including the city of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Zhytomyr--nearly 488 people have been killed and 553 injured.
The OHCHR report mentioned that the actual figures could be considerably higher.
Most civilian casualties occurred due to explosive weapons with a wide impact area. This included shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems and missile and airstrikes.
Inputs from OHCHR
