No doubt Vladimir Putin takes account of the words of one of his predecessors.
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
- Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvil, otherwise known as Joseph Stalin
There extract below is from the Guardian:
The head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has warned that the civilian death toll in Ukraine is thousands higher than the official toll of 3,381, with deaths in the port city of Mariupol alone likely to add significantly to the total.
“We have been working on estimates, but all I can say for now is that it is thousands higher than the numbers we have currently given to you,” Matilda Bogner, the head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, told a press briefing in Geneva, when asked about the total number of deaths and injuries.
“The big black hole is really Mariupol, where it has been difficult for us to fully access and to get fully corroborated information,” she said.
The warning was delivered as dozens more bodies were discovered in the ruins of a burnt out and collapsed five-storey building in Izium in the Kharkiv region, and as the UN migration agency said eight million people were internally displaced inside Ukraine by the conflict.
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