From 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 18 September 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 14,532 civilian casualties in the country: 5,916 killed and 8,616 injured.
That’s according to the latest UN report on war casualties in Ukraine
This included a total of 5,916 killed (2,306 men, 1,582 women, 156 girls, and 188 boys, as well as 35 children and 1,649 adults whose sex is yet unknown);
a total of 8,616 injured (1,810 men, 1,327 women, 187 girls, and 259 boys, as well as 217 children and 4,816 adults whose sex is yet unknown).
In Donetsk and Luhansk regions, 8,222 casualties were confirmed (3,540 killed and 4,682 injured).
Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, including shelling from heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes.
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. This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Lysychansk, Popasna, and Siverodonetsk (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties.
Despite the generally recognized crimes, committed by Russia against Ukraine, some ministers with the UOC-MP continue to support Russia’s occupation of Ukraine and cover up the crimes of the Ruscists. Thus, the UOC-MP priest Gennady Shkil claimed that the burial site in the recently liberated town of Izium, Kharkiv region, where bodies of victims of Russia’s atrocities were discovered, is just an ordinary cemetery that was excavated as part of a hoax operation by Ukrainian psyop operatives.
