Ukrainian civilian death toll reaches 1,119 - U.N


FILE PHOTO: Medical specialists transport a woman, who was wounded in the shelling of an apartment building, to an ambulance, as her husband stands nearby, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo

ZURICH (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office said on Sunday that 1,119 civilians had so far been killed and 1,790 wounded since Russia began its attack on Ukraine.

Some 15 girls and 32 boys, as well 52 children whose sex is as yet unknown, were among the dead, the United Nations said in a statement which covered the period between when the war began on Feb. 24 and midnight on March 26.

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