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More than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, with about half of recent deaths occurring far behind the frontlines, the UN human rights office said. The UN human rights mission in Ukraine, which has dozens of monitors in the country, said it expected the real toll to be “significantly higher” than the official tally since corroboration work is continuing.
Germany will support Ukraine with another military aid package worth €1.3bn (£1.1bn) that will include an additional IRIS-T air defence unit, the country’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said.
Russia has not used its “premier air launched cruise missiles” from its heavy bomber fleet for nearly two months, likely allowing it to build up a substantial stock of these weapons, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in its latest intelligence update. Moscow is likely to use these missiles if it repeats last year’s campaign to destroy Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure, the MoD said.
Two people were killed and six injured in overnight Russian missile attacks and shelling in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, Ukrainian officials said. These claims have not yet been independently verified.
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Ukraine’s parliament passed in the first reading a bill to increase the staff of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau from 700 to 1,000, Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a lawmaker, said, according to the Kyiv Independent.
