The Geneva-based office said that another 759 civilians had been injured as of midnight Saturday.
The rights office uses strict methodology and only reports casualties it has confirmed.
Ukraine says second evacuation attempt from Mariupol halted, blames Russian shelling
A Ukrainian official says a second attempt to evacuate civilians from a southern city under siege for a week has failed due to continued Russian shelling.
Evacuations from the port city of Mariupol were scheduled to begin at noon local time during a 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. local ceasefire, Ukrainian military authorities said earlier today.
Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko says the planned evacuations along designated corridors were halted because of an ongoing assault.
“There can be no ‘green corridors’ because only the sick brain of the Russians decides when to start shooting and at whom,“ he says on Telegram.
A barrage of Russian missiles destroyed the airport in Vinnytsia in central Ukraine today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says.
“I have just been informed about a missile strike on Vinnytsia. Eight rockets… The airport was completely destroyed,” he says.
Poland’s border guard agency says that over 922,000 refugees have crossed the border from Ukraine since February 24, when Russia launched its invasion.
The agency says on Twitter that a record one-day number of over 129,000 crossed into Poland yesterday, and almost 40,000 between midnight and 7 a.m. today.
A nation of some 38 million people, Poland is receiving the largest number of refugees among Ukraine’s neighbors. Some who entered Poland have continued on to other countries.
The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency said today that more than 1.5 million refugees have crossed from Ukraine into neighboring countries since Russia invaded
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