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Ukraine: Civilian casualties as of 24:00 4 September 2022 [EN/RU/UK]

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August 2022

From 1 to 31 August 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 1,162 civilian casualties in Ukraine:

  • 294 killed (80 men, 79 women, 3 girls, 6 boys, and 126 adults whose sex is yet unknown); and
  • 868 injured (217 men, 186 women, 22 girls, 17 boys, as well as 15 children and 411 adults whose sex is yet unknown).

This included:

  • 228 killed and 631 injured in 125 settlements in regions (parts of regions), which were under Government control when casualties occurred (74 percent of the total); and
  • 66 killed and 237 injured in 8 settlements in parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions controlled by Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups (26 percent of the total).

Per type of weapon/incident:

  • Explosive weapons with wide area effects: 287 killed and 821 injured (95 per cent);
  • Mines and explosive remnants of war: 7 killed and 47 injured (5 per cent).