The United Nations said on Monday that more than 6,000 people have now been killed in eastern Ukraine after almost a year of fighting between government forces and Russian-backed separatists.
The report from the U.N. Human Rights Office recorded 5,665 deaths from mid-April 2014 to mid-February of this year, as well as 13,961 wounded individuals. Adding the recent casualties from the separatist attacks on the Donetsk airport and the strategic rail hub Debaltseve, the U.N. office estimated that the death toll has now surpassed 6,000.
While the U.N. noted allegations of arbitrary detention, torture, and enforced disappearances against both government troops and …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
