Russia kills almost 10,000 civilians in Ukraine during full-scale invasion - National Police
Photo: Maksym Tsutskiridze, Head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine (facebook.com/UA.National Police)
The National Police of Ukraine has documented the deaths of 9.7 thousand Ukrainian civilians as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion, according to Maksym Tsutskiridze, head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
According to Tsutskiridze, almost 7,000 civilians are currently missing, and the damage to Ukrainians' homes and property has exceeded UAH 40 billion.
"The police have directly documented the deaths of 9,700 Ukrainians, 11,000 more were injured, and almost 7,000 went missing. All of them are civilians," says the head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
Among the victims are 18 thousand children, 522 were killed. Proceedings have been opened against 14,000 Ukrainian children deported by the enemy to Russia and Belarus.
At the same time, he notes that the above figures apply only to the territories not occupied by Russian terrorists.
"I am even afraid to imagine what is happening under occupation. We do not know the whole truth, we will need to collect testimonies and evidence bit by bit in the future. Houses in Mariupol were simply razed to the ground by the enemy, and it is not known whether people stayed there. Ukrainians were killed not only by shells but also by soot and suffocation," explains Tsutskiridze.
Destruction of infrastructure
According to Tsutskiridze, the enemy has damaged and destroyed:
- 3.7 thousand educational institutions;
- 1.6 thousand hospitals;
- almost 9 thousand critical infrastructure facilities;
- 185 thousand residential buildings.
"In terms of property, both the citizens who lost their homes and our state suffered. As for the direct losses that we have established based on the results of the examinations, Ukrainians have lost their homes and property for more than UAH 40 billion! And I'm talking only about those proceedings that are being investigated by the police and for which there are already economic calculations," says the head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
When war is over
According to Zelenskyy, no one, not even the commanders, can answer this question yet.
"When they say that the war will last for many years, they do not know. These are opinions. Opinions are very often different from reality," the country's leader explained.
