logoalt Hacker News

schleck8 • today at 8:17 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

What is this number referring to? When I google it I only find chechen war, gaza, and US gun deaths annually


Replies

squidbeak • today at 9:03 AM

Mariupol's civilian casualties are hard to establish. Some of the upper estimates [1] run to 100,000 killed. Over just a couple of months.

[1] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/10/06/i-m-used-to-walking-...

KingOfCoders • today at 8:19 AM

The number is referring to the post I replied to:

"innocent civilians every day in Kyiv is not good".

Estimations for how many civilians Russians killed in Chechnya range from 45,000 to 80,000.

➕ show 2 replies
jazzyjackson • today at 8:22 AM

I suppose they’re mixing up deaths with injuries

  From the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 to December 2025, 14,999 Ukrainian civilians were killed and 40,601 injured, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/ukrai...
➕ show 6 replies