U.N. Report Faults Russia for Escalating Conflict in Ukraine

GENEVA — The United Nations said Monday that an influx of troops and heavy weapons from Russia had intensified the conflict in eastern Ukraine, undermining prospects for peace and causing a significant rise in casualties.

The United Nations estimated that more than 6,000 people have been killed since the fighting started in April, Ivan Simonovic, the organization’s assistant secretary general, told reporters in Geneva.

From mid-January to the middle of last month, at least 842 people were killed and more than 13,400 injured, said a United Nations report issued Monday. Hundreds of people remained missing and many victims of the fighting have been buried without their deaths being recorded, it said.

The death of a Ukrainian news photographer in shelling over the weekend provided more evidence of the risks facing journalists in Ukraine, where 10 have died since the start of the year, Mr. Simonovic said.

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