Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs estimates that the Russian war of aggression has so far killed more than 7,000 civilians and injured another 5,500.
“I want to emphasize that the bombings are claiming the lives of civilians. The number of civilians killed during this war now exceeds seven thousand. And another 5,500 civilians were injured,” Ukraine’s First Deputy Interior Minister Yevhenii Yenin said today on Ukrinform television, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE.
Jenin added that since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian police have recorded 22,000 shellings by Russian troops that hit more than 24,000 civilian objects.
“The Russians continue to bombard the territory of independent Ukraine with maniacal passion, without stopping for a moment in 191 days. Just on the last day, the police received information about the bombing of 28 population centers,” said the official, who stressed that civilians die in these “merciless bombings.”
So far, the UN has confirmed the death of 5,663 civilians and 8,055 wounded, although it admits that these figures are far below the real ones.
On February 24, Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine that caused more than eight million people to flee, more than 6.6 million of them outside the country, according to UN estimates.
The Russian invasion was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and tightening economic and political sanctions on Moscow.
Source: Observadora
