2023-07-08 05:14:24
500 days into the conflict, the United Nations has highlighted the civilian toll caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) said in a statement that more than 9,000 civilians, including 500 children, had been killed since Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022, but UN representatives had previously said the actual number was much higher. “Today we mark another milestone in a war that continues to take a terrible toll on civilians in Ukraine,” HRMMU Deputy Head Noel Calhoun said in a statement marking the 500th day since the invasion.
Although the death toll this year is on average lower than in 2022, observers note that the figure has started to rise once more in May and June. On June 27, a missile attack in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, killed 13 civilians, including four children. Far from the front lines in the western city of Lviv, rescuers found a tenth body in the rubble of buildings on Friday. At least 37 people were injured in the early-morning strike on Thursday, which Mayor Andrey Sadovy said was the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in his city since Russia began its offensive in the country.
More than 50 apartments were “destroyed” and a dormitory at the Lviv Polytechnic University was damaged, he wrote in a telegram. UNESCO said it was the first time an attack had taken place in an area protected by the World Heritage Convention and damaged a historic building. Russia regularly bombards Ukraine with airstrikes, including indiscriminate artillery and missile strikes, which have been particularly deadly. The strike targets infrastructure and supply lines, depriving civilians of electricity and water.
The cities of Bucha and Mariupol have become bywords for Russian atrocities in the past year, with reports and images of massacres there shocking the world and prompting accusations of war crimes and genocide. In the once sleepy commuter town of Bucha, AFP journalists witnessed a single street lined with corpse following corpse in civilian clothes in April.
Satellite images later showed scores of bodies lying in the streets since mid-March, when the city was under Russian control, while Ukrainian officials said hundreds of people had been killed in Bucha by Moscow’s retreating forces.
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