KYIV, April 4 – Civilian casualties from February 24, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, to April 2, 2022 amounted to 3,455 civilians (3,342 in the report a day earlier), including 1,417 killed (1,325), the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights said on Sunday.

"OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration," the UN said in the document.

According to him, this concerns, for example, Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region), and Irpin (Kyiv region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.

"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 multiple launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes," the UN said.

According to confirmed UN data, some 293 men, some 201 women, some 40 boys and 22 girls have been killed, while the sex of 59 children and 802 adults is yet unknown.

Among the 2,038 injured were 41 girls and 38 boys, as well as 92 children hose sex is yet unknown.

Compared to the previous day, according to the UN, one child was killed and three more were injured.

OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight on April 3, there were 401 (381) dead and 784 (793) injured in government-controlled territory, and 67 (67) dead and 252 (246) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed "republics." (om/ez)