At the site of a missile attack near the railway station in KramatorskGENEVA, Apr 8 Over 1,600 civilians , including 131 children, have died in Ukraine and Donbass since February 24, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reports. , including 131 children killed and 191 injured.»Ridiculous» genocide: why Europe does not see the Nazis in UkraineUNHCHR experts note that the real number of victims may be much higher, since it is difficult to confirm the deaths of civilians in a number of places. The office said that, despite the continued work of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, since February 24, the mission's experts had no access to the scene of incidents and were not able to interview victims and witnesses. Thus, the statistics are based on data obtained by the monitoring mission from «trusted sources, individuals and partners» in places where there were cases of death or injury of civilians. The Russian side has repeatedly reported evidence that Ukrainian nationalists use the civilian population and foreigners as a «human shield» during the conduct of hostilities. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
