Rising death toll in eastern Ukraine

The conflict in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Kiev has claimed over 10,000 lives since 2014, almost one-third of them civilians, making it Europe’s bloodiest since the 1990s Balkan wars


Separatist-controlled area
Frontline as of Sep 6, 2018

LUHANSK REGION
Maiorska: Civilian crossing point
Pokrovsk
Avdiivka
DONETSK REGION
UKRAINE
Mariupol
SEA OF AZOV
Luhansk
Debaltseve
Krasny Luch
Horlivka
Donetsk airport
Donetsk



CONFLICT-RELATED DEATHS
IN EASTERN UKRAINE
April 2014 to May 2018
Civilians
3,023
Members of Ukrainian
armed forces
3,332
“Members of
armed groups”
4,000
(Ukrainian Defence
Ministry statement)
(Approximate figure)
(Includes 298 people
killed by shooting
down of Malaysia
Airlines flight MH17
in July 2014)
More than
10,300
RUSSIA

25km 15 miles


Kiev
UKRAINE
Detail area
RUSSIA
Crimea Annexed by Russia


Sources: Financial Times, OHCHR 
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