The number of civilians killed during the conflict of the Russian Federation and Ukraine reached 10,703 people.
This was announced at a meeting of the UN Security Council by the Assistant Secretary General of the UN in the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific region Mohamed Haled Hiary.
The UN is concerned about the spread of the conflict to residential areas in the east of Ukraine, he said.
According to Hiary, Russian troops almost completely destroyed the villages, villages and cities to which the conflict spread.
These attacks are a violation of international law and should stop immediately, continued the assistant to the UN Secretary General.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to the deaths of 10,703 civilians. 549 of them are children. We were injured 20,146 people. We condemn all attacks on the civilian population and civil infrastructure,” Hiary said.
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Director of the Department of Financing Humanitarian Assistance and the transfer of UN management resources for the coordination of humanitarian issues (VSGV) Lisa Dauten also stated that attacks on civilians are violating international humanitarian law and recalled the obligation of the parties to the conflict to protect civilians.
According to her, the UN is still faced with serious obstacles in the issue of humanitarian aid delivery, especially in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions of Ukraine.
UN employees cannot deliver almost 1.5 million people in the vital humby, she added.