A man displays shrapnel. Archival photoDONETSK, June 1 The authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic have recorded more than 8.6 thousand deaths as a result of hostilities since 2014, of which 40% — over 3.5 thousand deaths occurred during the period of aggravation of the conflict after February 24, 2022, Dmitry Kalashnikov, head of the Republican Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination of the Ministry of Health of the DPR, told RIA Novosti. explosive, shrapnel wounds. Now, starting from February 24, 2022, only more than 3.5 thousand people who died due to gunshot wounds have already been investigated,» Kalashnikov said. Answering a clarifying question, he explained that these 3.5 thousand are not included in the 5, 1-5.2 thousand deaths from the initial statistics, thus, the total number of deaths is approximately 8.6-8.7 thousand people. oropostizhno and died in the hospital. «In 2014-2015, these were sixty percent of civilian bodies when our cities that were on the territory of the DPR were shelled,» a representative of the DPR Ministry of Health said. March of this year, when the weather was very cold, bodies were found with signs of hypothermia. The Ministry of Health of the DPR, Kalashnikov said, maintains daily updated databases of DNA samples and photographs of the bodies of the dead and dead so that relatives can find them. To search for relatives, you can contact the 9th building of the Kalinin hospital in Donetsk, the forensic expert concluded. in the DNR and LNR
