1,581 civilian casualties, including women, children, recorded as Russian-Ukraine war enters Day 18 —UN

The United Nations says it has so far recorded 1,581 civilian casualties, including 579 deaths and 1,002 injured, since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24.

Among the death and injured are 54 children and several women as the war enters its 18th day on Sunday, according to the UN’s latest report on civilian casualties.

“The largest number of victims was recorded in areas still under Ukrainian government control.

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“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the UN report noted.

The UN Human Rights office believes the actual number of casualties is “considerably higher especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days after reports of intense hostilities in regions such as Kharkiv, Mariupol and Donetsk, where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties.”

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