GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights workplace mentioned on Tuesday that it had verified 1,335 civilian casualties in Ukraine, together with 474 killed and 861 injured, since Russia’s invasion started on Feb. 24.
But the civilian toll was incomplete pending corroboration of reviews, it mentioned in a press release: “This considerations, for instance, the cities of Volnovakha, Mariupol, Izium the place there are allegations of a whole bunch of civilian casualties.”
Its earlier death toll for civilians killed, issued on Monday, was 406 civilians.
“Not a day has handed with out information of dozens of civilian casualties that resulted from indiscriminate bombing and shelling of residential areas of main Ukrainian cities,” Yevheniia Filipenko, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, informed the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Catherine Evans)
