Ukraine latest updates: UN says civilian death toll tops 5,000

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said that the real toll was likely much higher [File: Oleg Pereverzev/Reuters]

• The UN human rights office says that more than 5,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, adding that the real toll was likely much higher.
• The Kremlin announces Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran next week for a Syria summit with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• At least seven people have been killed, and 60 were injured in a Ukrainian air raid on Nova Kakhovka, a city in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Russian state news agency TASS reports, citing a Russian-backed official.
• Ukraine’s officials claim their forces destroyed an ammunition depot in the city.
• The death toll from a Russian rocket attack that hit an apartment block in Chasiv Yar over the weekend has risen to 43, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports.

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