Over 9,000 civilians, including 453 children, have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last February, a senior Ukrainian presidential aide said on Tuesday.
“We have registered 80,000 crimes committed by Russian invaders and over 9,000 civilians have been killed, including 453 children,” Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential staff, said at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.
“We will not forgive a single (act of) torture or life taken. Each criminal will be held accountable,” he said, reiterating that Ukraine wants a special international tribunal to try Russian political leaders and reparations for the destruction caused by Russia’s invasion.
The Office of the UN high commissioner for human rights said on Monday that more than 7,000 civilians had been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded.
The death toll from a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in Dnipro has risen to 44 people, the central Ukrainian city’s mayor said.
“I am here. Already 44 dead,” Borys Filatov said in a Facebook post.
Regional authorities said earlier on Tuesday that a child’s body was among the latest retrieved from the rubble.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the death toll.
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