At least 293 civilians were killed and 1,990 were injured in Ukraine in June 2026, the highest monthly casualty count since April 2022, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine announced today.
This total number of casualties represents a ten percent increase compared to May 2026 (282 deaths and 1,794 injured) and a 37 percent increase compared to June 2025 (249 deaths and 1,416 injured).
In the first six months of 2026, the UN recorded 1,396 civilian deaths and 7,978 injuries, which is a 37 percent increase compared to the same period in 2025 and a 114 percent increase compared to the first half of 2024.
Long-range weapons, missiles, and drones remained the main cause of civilian casualties in June, accounting for 45 percent of casualties (126 deaths and 907 injuries), mostly during attacks on urban centers far from the front lines, particularly Kyiv and Dnipro.
Near the front lines, attacks carried out by short-range drones have caused a large number of civilian casualties since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, with 89 deaths and 588 injuries.
Airstrikes (44 dead and 280 injured), artillery and multiple rocket launcher fire (27 dead and 171 injured), as well as mines and explosives (seven dead and 44 injured), the UN mission added.
The vast majority of civilian casualties recorded in June occurred in areas under Ukrainian government control. The regions of Zaporizhzhia (23 dead, 229 injured), Kherson (18 dead, 236 injured), Dnipropetrovsk (25 dead, 77 injured), and the city of Kyiv (11 dead, 112 injured) suffered the heaviest losses.
The UN also emphasizes that Russian forces have continued attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
They also report a significant increase in attacks by Ukrainian forces on facilities for the production, distribution, and transmission of electricity in occupied Crimea, with at least twelve of these causing emergency or planned power outages.
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