"This concerns, for example, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties."Casualties were heaviest in the Donbas quadrant, which encompasses Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, two of the four regions that Russian President Vladimir Putin illegally declared to be annexed for Russia in September.The updated statistics were released on the same day that Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liashko said that Russian military "terrorists" targeted a maternity hospital in the city of Kherson with bombs, although no casualties were recorded.Last week, Putin accused Ukraine of "directly" targeting Donetsk with shelling and causing civilian casualties, while lamenting that "not a single foreign media outlet or human rights organization has broken the silence on this issue."The Ukrainian government has claimed that over 100,000 Russian troops have been killed since the beginning of the war."