Russian invasion: 549 people killed, United Nations says

At the least 549 folks have been killed through the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in accordance with figures posted by the United Nations on Thursday.

The United Nations Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner additionally stated in an replace that 957 folks have been injured through the battle.

Nevertheless, the United Nations notes that the precise variety of deaths and accidents through the Russian invasion of Ukraine are seemingly “significantly larger,” stating that the receipt of data has been delayed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced the invasion into Ukraine on Feb. 24, stating that “our confrontation with these [Ukrainian] forces is inevitable.”

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Ukrainian Minister of Overseas Affairs later stated that Putin had launched a “full-scale invasion” of Ukraine.

Russian forces bombed a Ukrainian maternity and kids’s hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday, leaving three folks useless, together with a baby, in accordance with officers.

At the least 17 others have been wounded because of the assault, together with girls ready to provide beginning. 

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the West must extra stringent sanctions.

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A lady walks outdoors the broken by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian assault has severely broken a maternity hospital within the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol, Ukrainian officers say.
(AP Photograph/Evgeniy Maloletka)

“A youngsters’s hospital. A maternity hospital. How did they threaten the Russian Federation?,” Zelenskyy stated. “What sort of nation is that this, the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals, afraid of maternity hospitals, and destroys them?”

A prime regional police official referred to as the assault a “warfare crime,” stating that there was no justification for the assault.

Gutted automobiles following an evening air raid within the village of Bushiv, 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. Russia’s warfare on Ukraine is now in its ninth day and Russian forces have shelled Europe’s largest nuclear energy plant, sparking a hearth there that was extinguished in a single day. 
(AP Photograph/Efrem Lukatsky)

“Right now Russia dedicated an enormous crime,” Volodymir Nikulin stated. “It’s a warfare crime with none justification.”

The Related Press contributed to this report