UN human rights commission verifies 1,123 civilian casualties
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported Sunday that it has verified 1,123 civilian casualties in Ukraine since the Russian invasion of the country began on Feb. 24.
The OHCHR said the casualties include 364 civilians that have been killed, including 25 children. Another 759 civilians have been injured in the fighting, including 41 children, the OHCHR reported.
OHCHR said it is only reporting verified civilian casualties and acknowledged that the real figures are likely "considerably higher."
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Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and airstrikes.
At least 503 of the civilian casualties have occurred in the heavily Russian-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk provinces of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, including 88 deaths. Another 374 civilian casualties, including 65 deaths, have occurred in the Ukrainian government-controlled areas of the Donbas region.
OHCHR reported that in other regions of Ukraine -- including the cities of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Zhytomyr -- 276 civilians have died and 344 have been injured.
ABC News' Christine Theodorou