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UN: Civilian casualties reach 1,761 since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24.

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The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said that as of midnight on March 13, there were 636 killed and 1,125 injured civilians. Most of the recorded casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems.

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"Almost half of your 26 years of power in Russia you have spent in the war against Ukraine," Zelensky wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Whatever you say about NATO, geopolitics and the Russian language, this war is your personal choice — a war without a real reason. This is how history will remember it."

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