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Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), which monitors civilians killed or injured by explosive weapon use, reported that 94 percent of civilian casualties in Ukraine since the start of the conflict occurred in populated areas – a figure consistent with the pattern of harm to civilians recorded over the last decade.
The true extent of civilian harm in Ukraine is more severe, as the impacts of conflict and the use of explosive weapons extended beyond death and injury of civilians. A significant proportion of civilian harm was caused by damage to civilian infrastructure and the disruption of essential services.
As of December 2022, the Kyiv School of Economics reported that civilian infrastructure damaged or destroyed during the conflict included, approximately:
149,300 residential buildings
150 bridges or overpasses
900 cultural facilities
95 religious facilities
3,000 commercial shops
14,400 publication transportation units
The impacts of armed conflict and explosive weapon use have deprived civilians of access to healthcare in Ukraine. Between the beginning of the conflict through the end of 2022, Insecurity Insight and its research partners documented more than 700 attacks on Ukraine’s health care system. These included:
292 attacks that damaged or destroyed 218 hospitals and clinics (many health of which were attacked more than once)
65 attacks on ambulances
181 attacks on other health infrastructure (for example, pharmacies, blood centers, dental clinics, and research centers)
86 attacks on health care workers (at least 62 health workers were killed and 52 injured)
Energy infrastructure was often targeted by Russian forces’ use of explosive weapons throughout the conflict. Between the beginning of the conflict and November 2022, PAX identified 213 reported incidents of military actions on energy infrastructure (and verified 63 of those incidents), the largest of which occurred in October 2022, which damaged 40 percent of Ukraine’s electricity generation and transmission facilities. According to Human Rights Watch, these missile and drone attacks in October killed at least 72 civilians and injured 272, and left millions of Ukrainian civilians temporarily without access to electricity, water, heat, and other essential services.
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