Ukraine: over 56,000 civilian casualties since the start of the war

Brussels – The reconstruction of Ukraine will cost approximately half a trillion dollars. The European Union estimates it at 486 billion dollars, while the World Bank forecasts 588 billion dollars. But the costs are not only economic; there are also, and more importantly, human costs, which Brussels is beginning to consider. From 24 February 2022, the day Russian military operations began in Ukraine, to date, there have been a total of 56,550 Ukrainian civilian casualties. Of these, 15,172 are dead, and 41,378 are wounded.

 The data were collected by the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and provided by the Commissioner for Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib, in response to a parliamentary question about the humanitarian situation in the country. “The Commission is informed about the civilian casualties’ figures in Ukraine,” Lahbib assured, demonstrating how sensitive the EU executive is to the issue and how active it is on the political, technical, and, above all, assistance fronts.