About 9,000 civilians died during the war in Ukraine

The United Nations (OKB) has noted a large number of civilian victims in the war in Ukraine, which has been continuing for 500 days.

More than 9,000 civilians, including 500 children, have died since the beginning of Ukraine's Russian invasion on February 24th 2022, the UN Human Rights Mission in Ukraine said.

“Today marks a new black phase in a war that continues to cause terrible losses among Ukrainian civilians,” said Noel Calhou, deputy chief of the UN Human Rights Mission in Ukraine, in a statement issued Friday, on the 500th day since the start of the war, February 24th, 2022.

Although this year the number of victims was lower than in 2022, it began to rise again in May and June, observers said.

In a missile attack in Kramatorsk, east of Ukraine, 13 civilians were killed on 27 June, including four children.

Far from the front line in Lviv, in the west, ten people were killed in promotions early Thursday morning, in what the mayor called the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure since the beginning of the invasion.

In that attack, 42 people were injured, including three children, according to a report by the Ukraine Ministry of Internal Affairs published on Friday.

U n NESTO announced that this attack was also the first in an area protected by the Convention for Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage and that a historic building was damaged.

The towns of Butka, north of the country not far from Kiev, and Marioupol in the southeast, have become symbols of the 2023 attacks Russia is accused of war crimes and genocide. REL