EXPLAINER: At 100 days, Russia-Ukraine war by the numbers

EXPLAINER: At 100 days, Russia-Ukraine war by the numbers

GENEVA (AP) — One hundred days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought the world a near-daily drumbeat of gut wrenching scenes: Civilian corpses inside the streets of Bucha; a blown-up theater inside Mariupol; the chaos at a Kramatorsk train stopping place inside the wake of a Russian missile strike.

Those images tell fair a small portion of the all-inclusive painting of Europe's worst armed dispute inside decades. Here's a look at some numbers with every one other accompanied by statistics that — while inside flux with every one other accompanied by at times uncertain — shed further illumination on the death, destruction, displacement with every one other accompanied by monetary havoc wrought by the war while it reaches this milestone accompanied by no indeed extremity inside sight.

THE HUMAN TOLL

Nobody really knows how numerous combatants or civilians have died, with every one other accompanied by claims of casualties by management officials — who may occasionally exist exaggerating or lowballing their figures for condition relations reasons — are all nevertheless impossible to verify.

Government officials, U.N. agencies with every one other accompanied by others who convey not here the grim position of employment of counting the deceased don't always obtain access to places where people were killed.

And Moscow has released scant details concerning casualties among its forces with every one other accompanied by allies, with every one other accompanied by specified no indeed accounting of civilian deaths inside areas under its control. In some places — such while the long-besieged city of Mariupol, potentially the war's biggest killing meadow — Russian forces are accused of trying to cover up deaths with every one other accompanied by dumping bodies into pile graves, clouding the all-inclusive toll.

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With all those caveats, "at least tens of thousands" of Ukrainian civilians have died so far, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday inside comments to Luxembourg's parliament.

In Mariupol alone, officials have reported over 21,000 civilian dead. Sievierodonetsk, a city inside the eastern neighbourhood of Luhansk that has become the focus of Russia's offensive, has seen violently 1,500 casualties, according to the mayor.

Such estimates comprise both those killed by Russian strikes or troops with every one other accompanied by those who succumbed to subordinate effects such while hunger with every one other accompanied by sickness while food supplies with every one other accompanied by health services collapsed.

Zelenskyy said this week that 60 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying inside combat every one day, accompanied by concerning 500 additional wounded.

Russia's last publicly released figures for its own forces came March 25, when a general told condition media that 1,351 soldiers had been killed with every one other accompanied by 3,825 wounded.

Ukraine with every one other accompanied by Western observers speak the real number is a a large amount of higher: Zelenskyy said Thursday that additional than 30,000 Russian servicemen have died — "more than the Soviet Union lost inside 10 years of the war inside Afghanistan"; inside late April, the British management estimated Russian losses at 15,000.

Speaking on condition of anonymity Wednesday to talk over intellectual capacity matters, a Western official said Russia is "still taking casualties, nevertheless ... inside smaller numbers." The official estimated that some 40,000 Russian troops have been wounded.

In Moscow-backed separatist enclaves inside eastern Ukraine, authorities have reported over 1,300 fighters lost with every one other accompanied by almost 7,500 wounded inside the Donetsk region, down accompanied by 477 deceased civilians with every one other accompanied by almost 2,400 wounded; and 29 civilians killed with every one other accompanied by 60 wounded inside Luhansk.

THE DEVASTATION

Relentless shelling, bombing with every one other accompanied by airstrikes have reduced large swaths of numerous cities with every one other accompanied by towns to rubble.

Ukraine's parliamentary percentage on anthropoid rights says Russia's military has destroyed almost 38,000 residential buildings, rendering concerning 220,000 people homeless.

Nearly 1,900 educational facilities from kindergartens to category schools to universities have been damaged, including 180 completely ruined.

Other infrastructure losses include 300 automobile with every one other accompanied by 50 objection strongly at bridges, 500 factories with every one other accompanied by concerning 500 damaged hospitals, according to Ukrainian officials.

The World Health Organization has tallied 296 attacks on hospitals, ambulances with every one other accompanied by medical workers inside Ukraine this year.

FLEEING HOME

The U.N. displaced person agency UNHCR estimates that concerning 6.8 million people have been driven not here of Ukraine at some point throughout the conflict.

But since fighting subsided inside the area near Kyiv with every one other accompanied by elsewhere, with every one other accompanied by Russian forces redeployed to the the orient with every one other accompanied by south, concerning 2.2 million have returned to the country, it says.

The U.N.'s International Organization for Migration estimates that while of May 23 there were additional than 7.1 million internally displaced people — that is, those who fled their homes nevertheless carry on accompanied by to exist inside the country. That's down from over 8 million inside an earlier count.

LAND SEIZED

Ukrainian officials speak that earlier to the February invasion, Russia controlled some 7% of Ukrainian territory including Crimea, which Russia annexed inside 2014, with every one other accompanied by areas held by the separatists inside Donetsk with every one other accompanied by Luhansk. On Thursday, Zelenskyy said Russian forces now held 20% of the country.

While the front lines are constantly shifting, that amounts to an additional 58,000 marketplace kilometers (22,000 marketplace miles) under Russian control, a total area slightly larger than Croatia or a little smaller than the U.S. condition of West Virginia.

THE ECONOMIC FALLOUT IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ...

The West has levied a host of retaliatory sanctions opposed to Moscow including on the crucial lubricant with every one other accompanied by gasoline sectors, with every one other accompanied by Europe is beginning to wean itself from its dependence on Russian energy.

Evgeny Gontmakher, educational director of European Dialogue, wrote inside a paper this week that Russia currently faces over 5,000 targeted sanctions, additional than some other country. Some $300 billion of Russian gold medal with every one other accompanied by overseas exchange reserves inside the West have been frozen, he added, with every one other accompanied by air vehicles inside the country dropped from 8.1 million to 5.2 million passengers in the centre of January with every one other accompanied by March.

Additionally, the Kyiv School of Economics has reported that additional than 1,000 "self-sanctioning" companies have curtailed their operations inside Russia.

The MOEX Russia merchandise register has plunged by concerning a quarter since fair earlier to the invasion with every one other accompanied by is down almost 40 percent from the begin of the year. And the Russian Central Bank said last week that annualized inflation came inside at 17.8 percent inside April.

Ukraine, meanwhile, has reported suffering a staggering monetary blow: 35% of GDP wiped not here by the war.

"Our straight losses today exceed $600 billion," Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskyy's office, said recently.

Ukraine, a greatest agricultural producer, says it has been unable to sell abroad some 22 million tons of grain. It blames a backlog of shipments on Russian blockades or capture of answer ports. Zelenskyy accused Russia this week of stealing at least a half-million tons of cereal throughout the invasion.

... AND THE WORLD

The fallout has rippled around the globe, further driving up costs for basic goods on top of inflation that was by that hour dated inside filled sway inside numerous places earlier to the invasion. Developing countries are actuality squeezed mainly firm by higher costs of food, fuel with every one other accompanied by financing.

Crude lubricant prices inside London with every one other accompanied by New York have risen by 20 to 25 percent, resulting inside higher prices at the pump with every one other accompanied by for an array of petroleum-based products.

Wheat supplies have been disrupted inside African nations, which imported 44% of their wheat from Russia with every one other accompanied by Ukraine inside the years straight away earlier to the invasion. The African Development Bank has reported a 45% grow inside continental prices for the grain, affecting each item from Mauritanian couscous to the fried donuts sold inside Congo.

Amin Awad, the U.N. crisis coordinator inside Ukraine, said 1.4 billion people worldwide could exist affected by shortages of cereal with every one other accompanied by fertilizer from the country.

"This war's toll on civilians is unacceptable. This war has no indeed winner," he told reporters inside Geneva via video from Kyiv on Friday. "Today we mark a tragic milestone. And we know what is needed the most: An extremity to this war."

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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine.

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EXPLAINER: At 100 days, Russia-Ukraine war by the numbers