The organization emphasizes that due to the high intensity of hostilities, it is currently impossible to count the exact number of dead.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has released the latest data on victims of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The information appeared on the official website of the organization.
As of May 13, the United Nations recorded 3,573 deaths and 3,816 wounded civilians. On May 11, the figure was 3,541 and 3,785, respectively. The highest number of deaths was in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts: 1,919 civilians, of which 1,802 were in the territory controlled by Ukraine.
It should be noted that due to the difficulty in counting their number of victims may be much higher.
“Because information from some places where intense fighting is taking place is delayed, many reports from civilian casualties need to be confirmed,” the Office of the High Commissioner said. style = “text-align: justify;”>First of all, we are talking about Mariupol in Donetsk region, Izyum in Kharkiv region and Popasna in Luhansk region, where numerous cases of death or injury of civilians, as well as mass burials of civilians are reported. It is currently impossible to count the number of victims in these settlements.
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Earlier it was reported that the number of children injured as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation has increased.
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