{"id":12050,"date":"2022-12-29T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:08:50","slug":"nearly-18000-civilians-have-been-killed-or-injured-since-the-start-of-the-invasion-according-to-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=12050","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 18,000 civilians have been killed or injured since the start of the invasion, according to the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 18,000 confirmed civilian casualties in Ukraine since February 24, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the figures provided by the UN agency, 6,884 civilians have been killed and 10,947 injured since the start of Moscow&#8217;s invasion of Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN agency added that the actual toll is &#8220;significantly higher&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide effects, including shelling by heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, rockets and airstrikes,&#8221; the UNHCR said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The worst affected areas were Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 18,000 confirmed civilian casualties in Ukraine since February 24, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said. According to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,7,3830],"tags":[58,1156,1976,3395],"class_list":["post-12050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-science","category-research","category-war-in-ukraine","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12052,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions\/12052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}