Since the start of Russia’s full-scale occupation, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 17,181 civilian casualties in Ukraine, including 6,702 killed and 10,479 injured.
It is noted that most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, including heavy artillery shelling, multiple launch rocket systems, rockets and airstrikes.
OHCHR points out that the actual figures are significantly higher, as the receipt of information from some countries where intense hostilities have continued has been delayed.
As reported earlier, according to Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets, more than 15,000 people have disappeared during Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine.