tooting s speech shows the hopelessness of his position. russian people will doubt his abilities. and russia has arrived at abilities. and russia has arrived at a dead end and anything it does will only worsen its situation. putin inhabits reality the dialogue on international law and justice are not possible. let me remind you of the latest figures from the un human rights office. they say that after almost one year of law in ukraine, verified civilian deaths stand at more than 8000, with more than 13,000 injured. but they caution, they warned that because of the difficulties of getting information from some areas, the realfigure will be much higher. we will continue to bring you lots of analysis on what president putin has had to say and all the other main use of the day, here at bbc news. thanks for watching.
but we always put a word of caution in, saying this figure is actually very low, probably, compared to the real figure which may be much higher. it is worth remembering that we have had no access to some of the areas where the fighting has been the heaviest, such as mariupol, or more recently kherson. we ve not really investigated the situation in those areas or many other areas of ukraine to which we have no access whatsoever. so these are fairly conservative low estimates, essentially. the realfigure is probably much higher. do you take into account civilian deaths caused as a result of the war, as well, people who may have died because of a lack of access to healthcare or through things like the cold or hunger? no, these figures do not
is actually very low, probably, compared to the real figure which may be much higher. it is worth remembering that we have had no access to some of the areas where the fighting has been the heaviest, such as mariupol, or more recently kherson. we ve not really investigated the situation in those areas or many other areas of ukraine to which we have no access whatsoever. so these are fairly conservative low estimates, essentially. the realfigure is probably much higher. do you take into account civilian deaths caused as a result of the war, as well, people who may have died because of a lack of access to health care or through things like the cold or hunger? no, these figures do not include those, of course. the war has essentially wreaked havoc at the lives of millions of people, perhaps tens of millions, thousands are dead, more than 10,000 wounded, perhaps many more than that, millions uprooted and so on and so forth. generally wars are boosters of any kind of hardship, so people wit
probably, compared to the real figure which may be much higher. it is worth remembering that we have had no access to some of the areas where the fighting has been the heaviest, such as mariupol, or more recently kherson. we ve not really investigated the situation in those areas or many other areas of ukraine to which we have no access whatsoever. so these are fairly conservative low estimates, essentially. the realfigure is probably much higher. pope francis has asked roman catholics to pray for his predecessor, pope benedict, who he said was very ill. francis made the surprise appeal, at the end of his general audience at the vatican. the vatican has confirmed, that pope francis visited his ailing predecessor on wednesday morning right after the general audience. benedict xvi is now 95, and his
real figure there s always a caveat that the realfigure is there s always a caveat that the real figure is possibly there s always a caveat that the realfigure is possibly higher. how is one to actually count the number of people who d been killed and injured when you have people trapped injured when you have people trapped in this bonkers, unable to leave? we been hearing there are two provinces in the donbas and we ve been hearing that russia is now attacking the highways, what the ukrainians call salvation highways, in other words, these are the routes by which people can escape and they can no longer escape. we know from our you pulled that people have been injured and dying and lying unburied for very long time simply because people have no way out. so what ever figures at the united nations gives us it is just a guide. we are constantly reminded that as bad in a shocking and as horrific of what we can see even more distressing is what we