By KYIV. May 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to 00:00 on May 11 amounted to 7,326 civilians (a day earlier some 7,256), including 3,541 killed (3,496), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said on Thursday.
"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 it, this concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), and Popasna (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties.
"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 1,300 men, some 844 women, some 93 boys and 77 girls killed, while the gender of 69 children and 1,158 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 3,785 wounded were 98 boys and 90 girls, as well as 167 children whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to the report the day before, one child killed and seven more were wounded.
OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on May 12, there were 1,781 (1,750) killed and some 1,473 (1,466) wounded in government-controlled territory, and 116 (115) killed and 476 (462) wounded in territory controlled by self-proclaimed "republics."
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (in Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 1,644 (1,631) killed and 1,836 (1,832) wounded.
According to daily report, the increase in numbers from the previous summary should not be attributed only to the May 11 cases, since during this period the office verified a number of cases from previous days.
