civilian casualties

Ukraine's power grid operator said critical infrastructure damage has already exceeded $1.5 billion in necessary repairs.

Russian artillery killed 10 Ukrainian civilians on Wednesday, injuring several more in the eastern town of Kurakhove, reported Zelensky.

Russia has reportedly lost more than 100,000 soldiers to injury and death, and is losing a further 100 men each day during the conflict in Bakhmut, Ukraine.

"There certainly aren't many countries who, like Russia, would take on the task of facilitating efforts to resolve the situation and ease tensions," the Kremlin said.

"These strikes are not against civilian infrastructure," Konstantin Dolgov, former Russian commissioner for human rights, said.

Bodies decompose at a variety of rates depending on the temperature, humidity, insects and clothing, leading to difficulties identifying individuals.

"Bloodthirsty scum! You will definitely answer. For every lost Ukrainian life!" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling ahead of an IAEA visit to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov have both denounced Amnesty International's report alleging Ukrainian war crimes.

Amnesty International has previously accused Russia of war crimes and said that allegations against Ukraine "in no way justify Russia's indiscriminate attacks."

At least 20 civilians, including three children, were killed by the strike on the central Ukraine city, according to officials.

"This is terrorism," Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba tweeted in response to the attack.

Russia has been accused of intentionally targeting civilians, using indiscriminate methods of warfare and of using cluster bombs in the war against Ukraine.

"The occupiers are deliberately beating residential areas where there are no military facilities," said Kharkiv Governor Oleg Synegubov.

"Now we will never know how many civilians from Mariupol were actually killed by a Russian bomb at the Drama Theater," wrote an adviser to the city's mayor.

Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko estimates about 21,000 civilian deaths in his city, calling the act "genocide."

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg noted the "unprecedented sanctions" allies have imposed on Russia to ensure Putin is paying a "high price."

More than 7,000 Russian troops have been killed fighting in Ukraine in 21 days of war, according to U.S. intelligence estimates.

Sergei Orlov, the deputy mayor of Mariupol—where a mass grave has been dug, estimates that the figure is three to four times the official count.

Explosions have been heard around the country after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation.

ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was one of "multiple bodies" left in the wake of a U.S. Special Forces raid on a house in Syria last week.

The announcement came on the same day as a report from the RAND Corporation that found several flaws in how the U.S. military addresses civilian casualties.

"America is complicit in ... this horrific war that Biden and his senior officials once promised to end," one national security reporter wrote. "I hope they see these children when they sleep at night."

"They have to give us answers. Is our blood so worthless, we don't even get an explanation?" asked Ramal Ahmadi, a surviving family member.

War is messy. You can't expect a clean war or "zero" civilian casualties. But it's been 18 years, and we've all gotten too complacent about death.

The U.S.-led coalition said its warplanes or "partnered forces" may have been behind strikes that killed up to 28 civilians in eastern Syria.

Amnesty International says the coalition "decimated extended families and neighborhoods" in Raqqa.

Amnesty International suggested the Pentagon's report lacked credibility.

America's fight against terrorism doesn't appear to be dissipating even though it has been 16 years since 9/11. 

ISIS fighters reportedly crowded civilians into a locked building and goaded U.S. jets to fire on them.