Geneva: On March 8, the United Nations human rights office announced that it had verified 1,335 civilian casualties in Ukraine. The casualties included 474 slain and 861 injured since Russia’s invasion started on Feb. 24. “This concerns, for example, the towns of Volnovakha, Mariupol, Izium where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties,” the statement said. “Not a day has passed without news of dozens of civilian casualties that resulted from indiscriminate bombing and shelling of residential areas of major Ukrainian cities,” it added.
