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22 mins ago
More than 6,500 civilians have been killed since the war began in Ukraine
By Teele Rebane
Ukrainian civilians who lost their lives during the Russian invasion are buried in the cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, on April 18.
(Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
At least 6,595 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 10,189 injured since Russia invaded the country in February, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Among those killed were at least 415 children, 2,575 men, 1,767 women and another 1,838 adults whose gender has not yet been identified, according to data released Monday.
Many of the civilian casualties occurred in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of the Donbas, an eastern region at the heart of the war that has seen the most intense fighting in recent months.
The OHCHR report said 3,939 civilians were killed and 5,338 others injured in Donetsk and Luhansk, including 449 on Russian-controlled territory.
The commission said the actual figures are "considerably higher" due to missing or delayed reporting in areas where the conflict has escalated, including in cities such as Mariupol, Izium, Lysychansk, Popasna and Severodonetsk.
Most of the recorded casualties were the result of explosive weapons with wide-area effects, such as heavy artillery shelling, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and airstrikes, the report added.
30 mins ago
Ukrainian authorities urge Kherson residents to evacuate during winter
By Yulia Kesaeva
Residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson will be evacuated to other regions of the country with working electricity and more intact infrastructure for the winter, specifically women, children, the elderly and other vulnerable people, according to authorities.
The Black Sea port city, which was recently liberated from Russian troops, has no power and authorities say the city's infrastructure is too damaged for citizens to survive the winter.
Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, said that Ukraine will offer citizens of Kherson free evacuation to the cities of “Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv and Odessa, with possible additional relocation to Kirovohrad region, Khmelnytskyi region or western regions of Ukraine”.
Ukrainian authorities will offer free accommodation, food and medical care to those who leave, he said.
40 minutes ago
IAEA: No 'immediate' security concerns at Zaporizhia plant after latest bombing
By Amy Cassidy
A team of independent inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog reported on Monday that there are "no immediate nuclear safety concerns" at Ukraine's Zaporizhia nuclear power plant after shelling over the weekend, according to an official statement. .
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said in a statement that the team assessed the damage to the site on Monday and concluded that "despite the severity of the bombardment, key equipment remained intact and there were no immediate nuclear security concerns".
All six reactors at Europe's largest nuclear power plant are "stable" and the team confirmed the integrity of the fuel and radioactive waste at their storage facilities, the statement continued.
However, "widespread damage" was still observed at the site, he said, which maintenance staff have already begun to repair.
Grossi described the damage as "a major cause for concern, as it clearly demonstrates the high intensity of the attacks."
The non-radioactive leaks were caused by damage to condensate storage tanks and the team observed "several impacts on the main road along the plant's reactors, as well as a railway on the site that is now out of service." said the IAEA statement.
The team also observed a “pressurized air pipe struck by shrapnel, two impacts on the roof of a special ancillary building, visible minor damage to a sprinkler head pipe, as well as two impacts in the guardhouse area.”
There have been no further attacks in the vicinity of the plant overnight or on Monday so far, "although there were shelling in the area of ​​the nearby town of Enerhodar and the industrial zone," according to the IAEA team.
55 mins ago
There is "growing evidence" of "systemic war crimes" by Russian troops in Ukraine, US official says.
By Jennifer Hansler
There is “growing evidence” that “systemic war crimes” are being committed in “all regions where Russian forces have been deployed” in Ukraine, a senior US State Department official said on Monday.
“This includes deliberate, indiscriminate, and disproportionate attacks against the civilian population and elements of civilian infrastructure,” abuses of civilians and prisoners of war, and “efforts to cover up these crimes,” reports of executions, torture, and sexual violence, Beth Van Schaack said. , US Ambassador General for Global Criminal Justice, to reporters on a call.
Russia has been accused of deliberately attacking Ukraine's civilian power grid in an effort to deprive civilians of electricity and heat, an act that would amount to a war crime.
Van Schaack said it is difficult to determine whether individual attacks in particular would be war crimes, noting that "each individual attack must be assessed based on whether there were military targets in the vicinity or whether they were purely civilian objects."
But he said: "There is a constant pattern of attacks against civilian elements."
Van Schaack also highlighted Russia's “construction of a vast transnational infrastructure of leak operations, to which thousands of Ukrainian citizens have now been subjected,” which is a violation of international law.
“There are compelling reports describing physical and psychological abuse, including summary executions, as part of the operations and forcible removal and deportation, including thousands of Ukrainian children, who have been abducted and forcibly adopted by families inside Russia,” said.
The United States is supporting the International Criminal Court, the Office of the Attorney General of Ukraine -- which "has already identified thousands of incidents that may constitute war crimes" -- the UN Commission of Inquiry, a joint investigative team European, Van Schaack said.
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