At least 136 civilians have been killed, including 13 children, and 400 injured since the Russian-led invasion of Ukraine began last week, a UN agency said today.
“The real toll is likely to be much higher,” Liz Trossell, a spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told reporters, adding that 253 of the civilian casualties were in Donetsk and Donetsk regions. in eastern Ukraine.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is stepping up its activities in Ukraine to support up to 3.1 million people, WFP spokesman Thomson Firi said, adding: “Food stocks are depleted.”
Recent rocket attacks in Kharkov
At least 10 people were killed and 35 others were injured today in rocket fire by Russian forces against the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian Interior Ministry spokesman Anton Herastshenko said in a statement posted on social media.
“The ruins are being cleared and there will be more casualties,” he added.
Refugees and displaced
At least 660,000 people who have fled the Russian invasion of Ukraine have flocked to neighboring countries and the numbers are rising at an “exponential” rate, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said today.
“We now have more than 660,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine to neighboring countries in the last six days alone,” HCR spokeswoman Sambia Mantou told a news conference in Geneva.
The UN estimates that one million people are internally displaced in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion, in addition to the hundreds of thousands who have fled the country, an HCR official in Stockholm said.
“A lot of attention has been paid to those fleeing to neighboring countries, but it is important to remember that most of the people affected are in Ukraine. We do not yet have a safe number of people displaced inside Ukraine, but we estimate that about one million people have fled their homes in the country, “said Carolina Lindholm Billing, a HCR official, at a Swedish government press conference.
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