By KYIV. May 11 (Interfax-Ukraine) – From 24 February 2022, which marked the start of the large-scale armed attack by the Russian Federation, to 7 May 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 23,606 (23,375 as of May1) civilian casualties in the country: 8,791 killed and 14,815 injured, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported.
“OHCHR believes that the real figures are considerably higher, especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, 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,” it is noted in the document regarding the UN data.
This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Lysychansk, Popasna, and Severodonetsk (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties.
According to confirmed UN data, 3,977 men, 2,367 women, 271 boys and 217 girls were killed, while the gender of 31 children and 1,928 adults has not been determined yet.
Among the 14,815 wounded, 433 boys and 309 girls, as well as 274 children whose gender has not been determined yet.
Compared to the data for May 1, four children were killed and three more were injured.
If earlier the OHCHR summary of the number of losses was published daily, and then only on working days, then since July it has become weekly. This summary, as in the previous one, shows data by month.
According to them, the death toll for the first seven days of May was 58 compared to 179 in April, 181 in March, 141 in February, 199 in January, 206 in December and 187 in November.
The deadliest month, as indicated by the UN, for civilians remains March last year – at least 4,102 dead. In April-2022, according to the OHCHR publication, the number of civilian deaths due to the war decreased to 799, in May – to 535, in June – to 426 and in July – to 380. In the first five days of the war, from February 24 to February 28, 362 people died, in August – 336, in September – 395 and in October – 305.
The number of wounded in the seven days of May was 163 compared to 495 in April, 592 in March, 458 in February, 539 in January, 617 in December and 541 in November. In October, the number of wounded decreased to 795 from 981 in September, when it was higher than in August – 917. Before that, the number of wounded exceeded a thousand monthly: July – 1,130, June – 1,105, May – 1,138, April – 1,891, and March – 2,988. During the first five days of the war in February last year, 465 people were wounded.
According to the report, in the first week of May of this year, 55 people were killed and another 150 received injuries from explosive weapons with a large area of destruction, while three people died and 13 people received injuries from mines and explosive remnants of war (7% of total losses).
Government-controlled territories accounted for 89% of casualties in May, according to the UN.
The report traditionally states that the increase in indicators to the previous summary should not be attributed only to cases after May 1, since during this period the Office verified a certain number of cases for the previous days.
