Thursday, March 28

UKRAINE DEAD | How many dead are there in the Ukraine war?


Although it is impossible to specify exactly, the numbers of deaths and refugees after more than two weeks of war in Ukraine continue unstoppable. According to the latest data published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), since the beginning of the conflict until Tuesday, March 8, they have lost their lives. 516 civiliansof which 37 are children, and another 908 have been injured, including 50 children.

However, as recognized by the body itself, the actual figures “will be considerably higher” because the information, in many cases, suffers delays due to the increase in hostilities.

More than 2,500 dead in Mariupol

The Ukrainian authorities, for example, estimate that as of this Monday, March 14, more than 2,500 people have died in the Mariupol city since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the result of a siege that has left the area with hardly any basic supplies and which has been denounced by international organizations in defense of Human Rights. On the 10th, for example, the attack on a pediatric hospital in this city left three dead, one adult and two children.

This Monday, the 14th, it has been known that there are two more fatalities from this attack: a mother and her newborn baby.

To this must be added the daily victims, such as those recorded this Sunday night in kyiv, the capital of Ukraine monitored live with webcamswhere at least two people have died.

At 5 a.m. this Monday, March 14, an artillery shell hit a nine-story apartment block in the residential neighborhood of Obolon in kyiv, the Interior Minister’s adviser, Anton, announced on Telegram. Gerashchenko. “At 05:09 on March 14, an artillery shell hit a nine-story apartment block at 20 Bogatyrska Street in the Obolon district, causing partial destruction of the first to third floors and burning of the apartments. on the third and fourth floors,” the report says.

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The vast majority of the victims confirmed by the UN have been by wide-range explosive weaponsincluding fire from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, as well as missiles and aerial bombardment.

cipher war

On the other hand, the Government of Ukraine quantified until this Sunday, March 13, 12,000 Russian soldiers killed since Moscow began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24. According to a report published by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on its Facebook page, the Ukrainians also reportedly destroyed 374 enemy tanks, 74 planes and 86 Russian helicopters.

“The total combat losses of the enemy from February 24 to March 13 are approximately as follows: more than 12,000 soldiers, 374 tanks, 1,226 armored fighting vehicles“, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook.

material destruction

In addition, 140 enemy artillery systems, 62 multiple rocket launchers, 34 air defense systems, 74 aircraft, 86 helicopters, 600 vehicles, 3 ships/boats, 60 fuel tankers and 7 operational and tactical UAVs were destroyed, reports Ukrinform, Ukraine’s national news agency.

This balance, which cannot be compared with an independent source and does not mention casualties or the loss of its own military equipment, ensures that 999 Russian artillery systems or 454 vessels of different types have also been neutralized.

The number of deceased Russian soldiers is considerably higher than that recognized by the Kremlin, which has confirmed the death of 498 members of its armies on February 2.

refugee count

Ukrainians who have had to leave their country as a result of the war now number more than 2.8 million, of which more than 1.7 million are in neighboring Poland, at whose gates the attacks are taking placeaccording to the latest data from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) published this Monday, March 14.

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After Poland, the rest of Ukraine’s neighboring countries also continue to receive this flow of refugees and, among them, 255,000 have arrived in Hungary and 204,000 in Slovakiadue to a conflict that has also caused more than two million internally displaced persons, according to UNHCR calculations.

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The United Nations agency predicts that if the armed conflict continues, the number of refugees could exceed four million -the equivalent of almost a tenth of the population of that country-, although the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Political of Security, Josep Borrell, has increased that figure to five million. The number of internally displaced persons – which now stands at almost two million – could reach 6.7 million. To them should also be added tens of thousands who have fled to Russiaaccording to statistics from the UN agency.

humanitarian corridors

Meanwhile, both Russia and Ukraine are advancing in the opening of humanitarian corridors to evacuate the civilian population. This Monday, March 14, kyiv has announced the opening of ten humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians in various areas of the country. Kirill Tymoshenkonumber two of the Ukrainian presidential office, has detailed in his Telegram account that among the runners there is one who will connect Berdyansk with Mariupolwhich has been surrounded for days by Russian forces, an extreme confirmed on Monday by the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky in a video. Zelensky complains that Russia continues to block humanitarian assistance that his government is trying to get to Mariupol, the port city besieged by Kremlin troops for days.

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