UN announces that more than 350 civilians confirmed killed in Ukraine so far
March 5, 2022, 4:28 pm

UN announces that more than 350 civilians confirmed killed in Ukraine so far (File photo: Euromaidan Press)

The Khaleej Times reported, citing Reuters, a UN monitoring mission said on Saturday that at least 351 civilians are confirmed to have been killed in Ukraine since Russian troops attacked on February 24, and another 707 wounded, although the true numbers are probably “considerably higher."

Monitors from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that most of the civilian casualties were caused by explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and from missile and air strikes.

Russia continues occasionally targeting random Ukrainian settlements with missiles or bombs. This morning a missile strike hit Bila Tserkva city in Kyiv Oblast, destroying nearly 20 houses. Rescuers work on the site (video from local telegram channel below). Today had to be the day of a ceasefire near Mariupol and Volnovakha, besieged by Russian troops, to evacuate civilians. That was agreed in the last talks. The ceasefire lasted less than an hour and was disrupted. The Russian troops continued shelling just at the time when people, headed by the Red Cross, were about to leave Mariupol. Therefore, the evacuation was postponed. Despite shelling, 400 people were evacuated from Volnovakha, who themselves came to the designated area during the ceasefire, even though the column of buses couldn't reach the city center. Many civilians still remain in Volnovakha, hiding from the shelling without food. First humanitarian aid has reached Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts today from the west of Ukraine. Yet more is coming from abroad. However, it is not always possible to deliver it to each settlement, Luhansk Oblast Head Serhiy Haidai reported. Also, Russian troops continued the destruction of civilian objects in Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts, Oblast heads, and state emergency service report. For example, in Okhtyrka, air bombing resumed today at 16:00 EET https://t.me/Zhyvytskyy/787 In the Luhansk region, a child's hospital and residential buildings were damaged today because of the shelling, Oblast Head reported. https://www.facebook.com/sergey.gaidai.loga/posts/133908015815257
Posted by Euromaidan Press on Saturday, March 5, 2022

It said: “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 intensive hostilities have been going on was delayed and many reports were still pending corroboration."

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The mission said hundreds of civilian casualties alleged in the town of Volnovakha - where attempts were under way to open a safe evacuation corridor through encircling Russian forces - were yet to be corroborated.

Source: khaleejtimes

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