'Russian saboteurs' shoot dead schoolgirl and her parents in their car

A schoolgirl and her parents have been shot dead in Kyiv by Russian "sabotage and reconnaissance troops", the city's deputy mayor has said in a Facebook post.

The girl has been named as Polina, a 4th grade student in her final year of primary school in the Ukrainian capital. Her age has not been announced, though children in that year group in Ukraine are aged either nine or 10.

She was travelling in the family car along with both her parents and two siblings through the north-west of the Ukrainian capital on Saturday when Russian troops reportedly opened fire.

Both she and her parents were killed, while her siblings survived. Her brother is reportedly receiving treatment at Okhmatdyt children's hospital while her sister is receiving intensive care at a second hospital.

Polina is one of seven Ukrainian children killed so far during the conflict and the first to be named. The United Nations this morning reported a total of 102 civilians killed so far in the conflict, with that number expected to rise.

"Most of these civilians were killed by explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and airstrikes," the body's Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, warning that "the real figures are, I fear, considerably higher."

Some 422,000 Ukrainians have fled their homeland, with many more displaced within the country, she told the Geneva forum.

On Monday, Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 16 children have been killed so far. It follows statistics from the Ukrainian government released on Sunday, reporting the number of civilians dead at 352.

It said an additional 1,684 people, including 116 children, have been wounded.