Ukrainian refugees in Ireland - Megathread

Imagine picking your way through the ruins of Bucha. Your friends are out at the new mass grave site they've found. Bodies are being dug up and you honestly don't know whether it'd be better to have them dig up some of your family so you'd have closure. Or not find them, so you could still hope.

You do know at least some of the missing children are still alive, because one of them managed to send a text message a couple of days ago to say they were ok and being looked after, but they didn't know where they were, Russian speaking men had taken them.

Your husband hugs you, tells you he'll take care of himself, tells your son to look after you. He climbs onto the back of a truck, which is heading to bring volunteers to the front lines. You don't know if you'll see him again.

"I know," you say to yourself. "I'll become an economic migrant!"

"I'll move to Ireland, for the craic, and all the free stuff they'll give us. I hear if you ask on facebook, someone will even donate you a pack of knickers from Pennys! And we can sit in a hotel room all day!" (and be criticised for that) "And if it's sunny I can bring you to the beach!" (and be criticised for that). "It's all for the best, really."

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Date: 8 August 2022

From 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 7 August 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 12,867 civilian casualties in the country: 5,401 killed and 7,466 injured. This included:

• a total of 5,401 killed (2,081 men, 1,420 women, 147 girls, and 169 boys, as well as 39 children and 1,545 adults whose sex is yet unknown)
• a total of 7,466 injured (1,511 men, 1,095 women, 157 girls, and 225 boys, as well as 198 children and 4,280 adults whose sex is yet unknown)
  • In Donetsk and Luhansk regions: 7,254 casualties (3,207 killed and 4,047 injured)
    • On Government-controlled territory: 5,907 casualties (2,938 killed and 2,969 injured)
    • On territory controlled by Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups: 1,347 casualties (269 killed and 1,078 injured)
  • In other regions of Ukraine (the city of Kyiv, and Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Zhytomyr regions), which were under Government control when casualties occurred: 5,613 casualties (2,194 killed and 3,419 injured)

Civilian casualties in Ukraine from 24 February to 7 August 2022 (individual cases verified by OHCHR), per month

Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, including shelling from heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes.

OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration. This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties.

~ https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2022/08/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-8-august-2022

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So go take a running jump with your "economic migrants"

WTF? What the actual **** does that prove, other than you've far too much time on your hands behind your twitching curtains?! I live in Dublin. My car has a Sligo reg. I've not been to Sligo in about 15 years. "Nowhere near the fighting?" The fighting is. not. confined. to. the. Donbas. Region. Look further up the thread for a list of "safe" places attacked as recently as this week in central and southern areas, nowhere near Donbas.