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Three months of war in Ukraine: 3,000 soldiers and almost 4,000 civilians killed

Al menos 10,000 soldados ucranianos han resultado heridos en el campo de batalla por ataques del invasor.
At least 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been injured on the battlefield by the invader’s attacks.

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EFE

For: EFE Updated 24 May 2022, 9: 17 am EDT

Enter 2,532 and 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the Russian-ordered invasion of Ukraine began, three months after this Tuesday, and which has also cost the lives of at least 3,930 civilians throughout the country.

According to data compiled by the Ukrainian news portal The Kyiv Independent and released by the Prosecutor of the country, the Russian bombardments of various kinds that have devastated the country have also killed 125 children.

Likewise, 433 minors were injured, according to these figures, which are not complete, given that in places where hostilities have not ceased or the territories have been occupied by the Russians, it has not been possible to make a reliable calculation , warned the Prosecutor a on his Telegram channel.

And the same goes for the number of civilians killed or wounded, which could be much higher given the difficulties that exist in the country to count them.

The Ukrainian portal indicates that a total of ,000 Ukrainian soldiers have were injured on the battlefield by the invader’s attacks, which have also injured 4,799 civilians.

In figures, the country’s authorities have registered and documented so far a total 13,073 acts which they consider to constitute war crimes committed by the Russians.

Precisely, a kyiv court sentenced this Monday to life imprisonment ua to the first Russian military accused of having killed an unarmed civilian in Ukraine.

The Russian Army has fired on Ukraine in these three months of war a total of 2, 275 missiles and has carried out more than 3,000 air strikes, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

“In total, since 10 February, the Russian military has launched 1,474 attacks with missiles against Ukraine, using 2,100 rockets of different types”, Zelensky specified in a message issued this Tuesday.

According to Euromaidan Press, another Ukrainian independent news portal, before the war started, Russia occupied 43,000 square kilometers of the Ukrainian territory, which represented 7% of the total extension of the country.

Currently, the occupation extends over 125, square kilometers of the territory , which means that it has almost tripled its control over the sovereign space of Ukraine.

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