The UN’s current official number of civilian deaths in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country on February 24 could be higher by several thousands, according to the UN human rights mission in Ukraine, British news portal The Guardian reports.
«We have been working on estimates, but all I can say for now is that it is thousands higher than the numbers we have currently given to you,» Matilda Bogner, the head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, told a press briefing in Geneva, when asked about the total number of deaths and injuries.
«The big black hole is really Mariupol, where it has been difficult for us to fully access and to get fully corroborated information,» Bogner explained.
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The warning was delivered as dozens more bodies were discovered in the ruins of a burnt out and collapsed five-storey building in occupied Izyum in the Kharkiv region, and as the UN migration agency said 8 million people were internally displaced inside Ukraine by the conflict, The Guardian reports.
Ukrainian civilian deaths at war could exceed 3 381 by thousands, UN says
