Causalties

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, around 13 000 people died in the Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and a quarter of them were civilians. Another 30 000 have been wounded. However, these are just estimations because there are no reliable statistics on the separatists’ side. Passengers from the flight from the Netherlands to Malaysia that was shot down in the Eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014 were also included in the number of civilian victims.

There is decrease in number of wounded or killed civilians in the Donbass area each year; still, it does not mean that nobody dies in the continuing war. It is estimated that clearance of landmines and unexploded ordnance would last around 15 years after the conflict is over.