The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday it has confirmed the deaths of 1,179 civilians, including 104 children, in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, but noted that the real number is likely much higher, according to an OHCHR report.
"From 4 a.m. on February 24, 2022, when the Russian Federation's armed attack on Ukraine began until 24:00 local time on March 28, 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 3,039 civilian casualties in the country: 1,179 dead and 1,860 wounded," the report said.
According to the OHCHR, these figures include:
A total of 1,179 killed (236 men, 172 women, 15 girls and 34 boys, as well as 55 children and 667 adults whose gender is not yet known);
A total of 1,860 wounded (209 men, 157 women, 34 girls and 26 boys, as well as 74 children and 1,360 adults, the gender of which is not yet known);
In Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, according to the UN Office, 388 dead and 949 wounded.
In other regions of Ukraine (Kyiv city, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Zhytomyr regions), which were under government control, the OHCHR reported 791 dead and 911 wounded.
