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As of 2024, the attacks had resulted in the UN-documented deaths of between 11,000 [9] and estimated 40,000 dead civilians. [10] On 22 April 2022, the UN reported that of the 2,343 civilian casualties it had been able to document, it could confirm 92.3% of these deaths were as a result of the actions of the Russian armed forces. [11]
On 29 April, the Mariupol City Council reported that Alina Peregudova, 14, who won gold at Ukraine's national weightlifting championship in 2021 and was on course to represent Ukraine at the Olympics, was killed by Russian shelling in Mariupol. Her mother was also killed in the attack. [137] [138]
The Guardian observed in a piece on Mariupol published after the Russian attack on the Mariupol maternity ward that "Entire settlements reduced to rubble, attacks on civilian targets and the bombing of refugee exit routes were all part of Moscow's brutal Syria campaign", [395] while the Washington Post under the headline "Russia's Ukraine war ...
At least 8,000 people were killed by fighting or war-related causes in Russia's months-long conquest of Mariupol, one of the biggest battles of the nearly two-year war between Russia and Ukraine ...
It also said: “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 multiple launch rocket ...
At least 8,000 people were killed by fighting or war-related causes in Russia's months-long conquest of Mariupol, one of the biggest battles of the nearly two-year war between Russia and Ukraine ...
Mariupol city council officials stated that the theatre was the largest single air raid shelter in the city, sheltering 500 [3] to 1,200 [5] civilians, and at the time of the attack, women and children were sheltering in it.
Mariupol became a byword for horror during a nearly three-month-long Russian siege for control of the strategic port city between March and May 2022, with trapped civilians who were forced to bury ...