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. On August 28, the UN gave the number of killed as 2,220, among them 23 children. A day later, Ivan Simonovic, U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, told journalists that the current number of killed is 2,593, not counting the victims of the Crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

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.

Oleh Lyashko & Semyon Semchenko
At least 8000 dead hidden.


 * Others
 * ''"We all remember the queues at the military recruitment stations, when everybody wanted to go to defend and to fight the Motherland, said Kolesnik. — Where are these queues now? These queues were killed in the cauldrons. They were killed in DAP, they were killed in Ilovaysk. They were killed in Debaltsevo.
 * — Nikolay Kolesnik - curator of the territorial defense battalion "Krivbas" - August 2015

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.

January 15, 2015: Zakharchenko claims 1500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Ilovaisk Cauldron.
 * DPR PM Zakharchenko argues with UAF officer and gives an interview

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 Volodomyr Ruban (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.

Internally displaced
According to the UN HCR, by Sptember 2, 2014 at least 260,000 people had been internally displaced in Ukraine, more than doubling from 117,000 a month earlier. Due to the lack of a central registration system, which the UN had urged Kiev to establish weeks earlier, the numbers are likely higher. A UN HCR map of the distribution of internally displaced shows that around 50,000 of them are displaced inside the Eastern provinces subject to the "Anti-Terror Operation".

Externally displaced
As of August 21, according to UN numbers 14,600 Ukrainians fled to Poland and 13,800 to Belarus. As of Septmeber 2, 814,000 left to Russia, the bulk under the visa-free regime, but more than 200,000 of them in contact with the Federal Migration Service. Of the 168,677 of the latter who had done so by August 5, the UN HCR details that
 * These included 6,347 for refugee status, 48,914 for temporary asylum, 28,134 for citizenship, 59,858 for temporary residence, 19,943 for residence permits and 5,481 under the programme of resettlement of compatriots.

Investigations
Russian Investigative Committee opened 54 criminal cases, gathered 2500 volumes of evidence. It is  ready to transfer these materials to  any international court. But it will continue its investigation. (Translated from Russian)