Report – The loss of civilian population, the destruction of housing and infrastructure as a result of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine
Jointly with NGO “Myrnyi Bereh”, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group conducted in-depth research, supported by UNDP, on the human rights violations during the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014-2018 to address the issues to the International Criminal Court.
According to the KHPG monitoring the losses are estimated approximately as 3500 deceased and 7000 wounded civilians.
Approximately 40 thousand residential buildings and 10 thousand of infrastructure objects were damaged, including more than 26.2 thousand residential buildings and 7.4 thousand infrastructure objects in Donetsk Oblast. 130 hospitals stopped functioning. Over 1600 victims of the mines’ explosions were registered.
Cases of the sexual and gender-based violence, torture of captives, rapes and other war crimes have also been documented in the independent report.
Authors conclude that there is no unified database for conflict-affected civilians. Different state authorities rely on completely different data, accordingly, there is no state mechanisms to compensate for damages.
The results of the report are being summarized and recommendations are to be provided to the state authorities.
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