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Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, on Thursday (24 Aug) told the Security Council that “some estimates put the total number of killed, civilians and military personnel of both sides, at half a million.”
Briefing the Council during a meeting on the Maintenance of Peace and Security in Ukraine, DiCarlo said, “The numbers alone tell a horrific story: OHCHR has confirmed at least 9,444 civilians, including 545 children, killed. Nearly 17,000 others, among them 1,156 children, have been injured. The real figures are likely much higher.”
The Under-Secretary-General reiterated, “As we warned during the Security Council meetings on 21 and 26 July, attacks targeting grain facilities may have far-reaching global consequences. They threaten to reverse the progress made in bolstering food security over the past year.”
DiCarlo stressed, “This could be catastrophic for the 345 million people already acutely food insecure around the world.”
She also noted, “Another recent UN assessment on the impact of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam concluded that the breach caused a far-reaching environmental disaster, the scale of which might not be clear for decades to come.”
According to DiCarlo’s statement, the United Nations has verified 173 cases of conflict-related sexual violence against 112 men, 57 women, and four girls.
She said, “The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has said that such incidents of sexual violence may amount to war crimes.”
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