Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia launched its war against Ukraine, to 24:00 on June 22 were 10,465 civilians (10,403 the day before), including 4,662 deaths (4,634), the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Thursday.
"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), Popasna, Lysychansk and Severodonetsk (Luhansk region). Numerous reports of numerous civilian casualties in these cities 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 1,789 men, 1,207 women, 148 boys and 131 girls were killed, while the gender of 41 children and 1,346 adults could not yet be determined.
Among the 5,803 wounded are 169 boys and 131 girls, and 179 children whose sex could not yet be determined.
Compared to the day's report, one child has been injured.
OHCHR indicates that as of midnight on June 23, there were 2,539 (2,524) dead and 2,456 (2,449) wounded in government-controlled territory and 186 (186) dead and 764 (760) wounded in territory controlled by the Russian armed forces in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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 1,937 (1,924) dead and 2,583 (2,560) wounded.
The summary traditionally states that the increase in numbers to the previous summary should not be attributed only to cases on June 22, as the Office verified some cases from the previous days during this period.
