THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced today that at least 816 civilians were killed and 1,333 were injured in Ukraine from the beginning of the war in the country until March 17.
Most casualties were caused by weapons explosionssuch as artillery shells and rocketsas well as from missiles and air strikesaccording to OHCHR.
The actual account is considered to be significantly higher OHCHR, which has a large observer group in the country, has not been able to verify reports of casualties from Mariupolreports Reuters.
Earlier today, the Ukrainian authorities announced that the dead civilians in Kyiv alone are 222.
The rate of arrival of Ukrainian refugees in neighboring countries has slowed down
Meanwhile, the number of people crossing the border to escape the war in Ukraine has slowed, although it could rise again if fighting continues further west, according to UN agencies.
«We have seen a slowdown, a general slowdownSaid Matthew Saltmars, the UN refugee agency official, via video link from Poland. Warmer weather may be a factor, he added.
Daily crossings in Poland, the country that has received the most arrivals, have dropped roughly in half from a peak of about 100,000 a day, he said.
Overall, according to the UN services, 3.27 million people have escaped from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24 and more two million people have been displaced insideof the country, retransmits the RES EIA.
Many escaped from besieged cities in the eastern part of the country to the western city Λβιβ, which so far has for the most part remained unharmed by violence. «If there is indeed an escalation in Lviv, there is a risk of renewed movement to the border“, Said Saltmars.
However, he said, more refugees crossing the border with Poland in recent days appear to have been mentally injured compared to previous days of the crisis. «Many of them have no plan“, He added. «Those who arrive are not clear about where they can go“, he said.
Source: News Beast
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