Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia launched its war against Ukraine, to 24:00 on April 26 were 5,939 (the previous day's report was 5,840), including 2,787 dead (2,729), the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Wednesday.
"OHCHR believes that the actual figures are significantly higher because information from some places where intense fighting has taken place has been delayed and many reports are still awaiting confirmation," the document said of the UN data.
According to it, this applies, for example, to Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izyum (Kharkiv region) and Popasna (Luhansk region), where there are reports of numerous civilian casualties. They are subject to further verification and are not included in the above statistics.
"The majority of civilian deaths or injuries were caused by the use of explosive devices with a wide kill zone, including heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers, as well as missile and air strikes," the report said.
The UN confirmed that 912 men, 611 women, 74 boys and 61 girls were killed, while the gender of 67 children and 1,062 adults could not yet be determined.
The 3,152 wounded include 73 boys and 66 girls, as well as 163 children whose sex could not yet be determined.
Compared to Friday's report, according to the UN, one child was killed and three others were wounded.
The UN OHCHR indicates that as of midnight on April 27, there were 1,229 (1,185) deaths and 1,159 (1,144) injuries in government-controlled territory and 85 (83) deaths and 353 (347) injuries in territory controlled by self-proclaimed "republics" in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 1473 (1461) dead and 1640 (1620) wounded.
The daily summary traditionally states that the increase in numbers to the previous summary should not be attributed only to cases on April 26, as during this period the Office verified a number of cases from previous days.
