UN monitoring mission: 55 civilians killed and 224 wounded in Donbas in 2018

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published March 12, 2019. Updated March 12 at 12:11 pm

A Ukrainian soldier tapes up a machine gun ammunition belt in a dugout in the combat zone of Zaitseve in Donetsk Oblast, 508 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, on June 25, 2018.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) observed 279 civilian casualties in the Donbas conflict in 2018.

“A total of 279 civilian casualties, including 55 dead and 224 wounded, were observed in 2018. This is 50% down on civilian casualties seen in 2017 and an all-time low in this conflict,” the HRMMU said in a report presented at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

The all-time low in civilian casualties of the Donbas conflict was observed between November 16, 2018, and February 15, 2019. Two civilians were killed, and 11 men and three women suffered injuries over that period.