Nearly 100 civilians have been killed in Ukraine so far this month, bringing the total civilian death count to nearly 6,000 since the war began, according to a new United Nations (U.N.) report on the war, APA reports citing The Hill.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights released a new report Monday detailing 5,827 civilians killed and another 8,421 injured in the conflict between Feb. 24 and Sept. 11.
This month alone, the U.N. mission recorded 96 Ukrainians killed and another 266 injured.
The actual numbers are likely “considerably higher,” according to the report, as information is hard to come by and verify in conflict-wracked areas.
Heavy artillery shelling, missiles, airstrikes and other “explosive weapons with wide area effects” were responsible for most of the civilian casualties, according to the report.
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