The United Nations (UN) said it has confirmed at least 240 civilian casualties, including at least 64 people killed, in the fighting in Ukraine that erupted since Russia’s military operations on Thursday – though it believed the “real figures are considerably higher” because many reports of casualties remain to be confirmed, Sky News said Sunday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) relayed the count late Saturday from the UN human rights office, which has strict methodologies and verification procedures about the toll from conflict.
OCHA also said damage to civilian infrastructure has deprived hundreds of thousands of people of access to electricity or water, and produced a map of “humanitarian situations” in Ukraine – mostly in northern, eastern and southern Ukraine.
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