The United Nations human rights agency announced today that 1.119 civilians have so far been killed in Ukraine and 1,790 have been injured since Russia invaded the country.
About 15 girls and 32 boys, as well as 52 children whose gender is not known, are among the dead, the United Nations said in a statement covering the period from the start of the war on February 24 to midnight on March 26.
The actual number of casualties is expected to be significantly higher, according to the United Nations, as information from some areas where fierce fighting is taking place is arriving too late[/B] and some information still needs confirmation.
This mainly concerns besieged Mariupol in southern Ukraine as well as, Volnovakia in Donetsk Oblast and Izium in Kharkiv Oblast, Popasna and Rubiznye in Luhansk Oblast and Trostyanets in Sumy Oblast, according to the United Nations.
Most civilian casualties were caused by wide-area explosive weapons, including heavy artillery shelling and multiple rocket launchers, and by rocket and air strikes, the United Nations notes.
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