The United Nations Human Rights Office said nearly 6,600 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since the start of Russia's invasion.
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In total, its human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has so far recorded and independently verified 16,784 civilian casualties in the country, which includes 10,189 injuries. Among the 6,595 killed were 2,575 men, 1,767 women, 172 girls, 206 boys, as well as 37 children and 1,838 adults whose sex is yet unknown, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said."OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, 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," it said.
, and the towns of Izium Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk, where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties. It said most of the people were killed or injured from the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, like heavy artillery shelling, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes.
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