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Date: 9 March 2022
From 4 am on 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 12 midnight on 8 March 2022 (local time), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 1,424 civilian casualties in the country: 516 killed and 908 injured. This included:
- a total of 516 killed (98 men, 60 women, 9 boys, and 5 girls, as well as 23 children and 321 adults whose sex is yet unknown)
- a total of 908 injured (78 men, 57 women, 12 girls, and 4 boys, as well as 34 children and 723 adults whose sex is yet unknown)
- In Donetsk and Luhansk regions: 573 casualties (111 killed and 462 injured)
- On Government-controlled territory: 436 casualties (87 killed and 349 injured)
- On territory controlled by the self-proclaimed ‘republics’: 137 casualties (24 killed and 113 injured)
- In other regions of Ukraine (the city of Kyiv, and Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Zhytomyr regions), which were under Government control when casualties occurred: 851 casualties (405 killed and 446 injured)
- In Donetsk and Luhansk regions: 573 casualties (111 killed and 462 injured)
Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes.
OHCHR believes that the real figures are considerably higher, especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, 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. This concerns, for example, the towns of Volnovakha, Mariupol, Izium where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
OHCHR notes the report of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, according to which as of 12 pm (local time) 8 March, 41 children had been killed and 76 injured. OHCHR also notes a report by the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which as of 6 pm (local time) 8 March, the total number of civilian casualties in Kharkiv region was 170 killed (165 adults and 5 children) and 368 injured.