Ukraine war casualties

This page tries to document and make sense of the victim numbers claimed by the parties to the civil war in the eastern parts of Ukraine and organizations beyond that.

UN numbers
According to "very conservative" estimates of the UN OHCHR as of August 10, 2,086 people have been killed and almost 5,000 wounded, nearly doubling the numbers of casualties since the last estimate of 1,129 on July 26.

Claims of the Ukrainian Government
The Ukrainian government has been shy to report numbers of casualties in their "Anti-Terrorist Operations" staying in the hundreds until mid-August. Increasingly getting under pressure not least by mothers waiting to hear from their sons for months.

Claims of "Novorussia"
Rebels claim loyalist's radio intercept, claiming that 483 loyalist soldiers were killed, more than 700 wounded, just under Donetsk, on Aug 19 2014. They claim the figure on the radio intercept is more than what they themselves had previously reported.

Other

 * A facebook account under the name and picture of Russian professor and political scientist Igor Panarin has come up with a detailed statistic of losses of Ukrainian forces, alleging a total of 17,672 "killed and wounded" and an additional 11,810 "deserters and missing" up until August 19.


 * According to Reliefweb At least 2,119 (including at least 20 children) killed and 5,043 (including at least 30 children) wounded in east Ukraine as of 13 August; on average, at least 60 persons a day have been killed or wounded since mid-April1


 * Continuing shelling in Donetsk and Luhansk increases number of displaced.


 * More than 22,000 people have fled Donetsk and Luhansk in the last five days compared to 6,200 in the week of 1 to 8 August).

POW
UAF General-Colonel Володимир Рубан estimates the number of prisoners still held by rebels at around 300 people, see around 18.31 @. In the past, he managed to exchange around 65 people. Urgency to speed the process is emphasized.