Chicago (EJP) February 16, 2023 Putin has killed, in the Russia-Ukraine war 18,000 Ukrainians , according to recently released figures from the United Nations (U.N.).
The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Tuesday that at least 6,884 civilians had been killed and 10,947 injured in Ukraine from the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022 up to December 26.2023 The casualties include 165 deaths and 516 injuries recorded in December, most of which were caused by "the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects."
"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," OHCHR said in a news release. "This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties."