A/HRC/45/CRP.8A/HRC/45/CRP.8 24. From 1 January to 31 July 2020, OHCHR recorded 107 civilian casualties: 18 killed (ten men, seven women and one boy) and 89 injured (49 men, 30 women, six girls and four boys), a ten per cent decrease compared with the same period of 2019 (20 killed and 99 injured). 25. Shelling, SALW10 fire and UAV11 strikes caused 67 civilian casualties: eight killed (five women and three men) and 59 injured (27 men, 23 women, six girls and three boys). Of these: 85.3 per cent (seven killed and 51 injured) were recorded in armed groupcontrolled territory (five killed and 36 injured in territory controlled by ‘Donetsk people’s republic’, and two killed and 15 injured in territory controlled by ‘Luhansk people’s republic’), and 14.7 per cent (two killed and eight injured) in Government-controlled territory. 26. For example, on 9 April, a woman was killed and a man was injured by an explosive dropped from an UAV when they visited an uninhabited house in armed group-controlled Shyroka Balka (Donetsk region). On 4 May, three girls were injured by light weapons fire while playing at home in armed group-controlled Oleksandrivka (Donetsk region). On 3 July, a woman was killed by mortar shelling while working in the yard of her house in the Government-controlled part of Zaitseve (Donetsk region). 27. Thirty-nine civilian casualties resulted from mine-related incidents and ERW12 handling: nine killed (seven men, one woman and one boy) and 30 injured (22 men, seven women and one boy). 28. For example, on 1 March, a man and a woman were injured in a mine-related incident walking near Sieverskyi Donets River (in armed group-controlled territory of Luhansk region). On 20 June, a man and a woman were killed after handling a hand grenade at a home in Government-controlled Stanytsia Luhanska (Luhansk region). On 5 July, a boy who handled an ERW was killed in armed group-controlled Makiivka (Donetsk region). Civilian casualties during the entire conflict period 10 11 12 Small arms and light weapons. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Explosive remnants of war. 9

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