The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has noted a tendency towards a decrease in the number of civilians killed and wounded as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Between mid-November and mid-February, two civilians were killed and 17 were injured (17 men, 3 women and one boy). This is 55% less than the number of civilian casualties in the previous three months,” said the head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Matilda Bogner at a briefing in Kyiv on March 12, presenting the mission’s report on the human rights situation in Ukraine for the period from November 16, 2019, to February 15, 2020.
In general, according to her, last year the number of victims and injuries among the civilian population was the lowest for the entire period of the conflict in eastern Ukraine – 27 dead and 140 wounded, while, for example, in 2018, 55 people died and there were wounded 226.
As Bogner noted, from the beginning of the conflict, at least 3,350 civilians were killed, more than 7,000 were injured.
