UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Tayd-Brook Zerihoun
reports 9,300 people have been killed in Donbas since the beginning of the
conflict.
"Positive steps forward [under the Minsk peace agreements] continue to
be heavily undermined to some extent by an overall precarious and unsustainable
situation in the conflict area. The total number of conflict-related casualties
continues to climb, now standing at more than 30,700, including more than 9,300
killed and close to 21,400 injured since the beginning of the conflict in the
middle of 2014," he said at a UN Security Council open meeting late on
Thursday.
"While some of the recent civilian casualties have been caused by
indiscriminate shelling, most are caused by landmines,
booby-traps, and other explosive remnants of war, which continue
to represent the biggest threat to civilians' life and security," he
added.
He called on the urgent need for mine clearance and mine awareness measures
on both sides of the contact line.
What is more, he pointed to the lack of systemic mine action and reportedly
high levels of military readiness and preparedness.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the OSCE Special Monitoring
Mission confirmed on Wednesday that four civilians, including a pregnant woman,
were killed near the temporarily occupied village of Olenivka in Donetsk
region, eastern Ukraine, in the early hours of April 27, 2016.
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