At least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 injured in Ukraine in July, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine reported. It was the highest monthly toll since March 2022.
The count was 30% above June and 70% above July 2025. “The number of civilian casualties in July was the highest in a single month since March 2022,” the mission said in its statement.
Danielle Bell, head of the mission, said casualties had risen every month since the start of the year. In July, she said, the trend “accelerated sharply.”
Missiles and Kyiv
The mission tied the jump to heavier use of ballistic and cruise missiles by Russia’s armed forces. Russia fired at least 429 missiles at Ukraine in July, twice the June figure, and a significant share of the attacks hit Kyiv.
The capital was among the hardest-hit cities. At least 54 civilians died there and another 202 were injured.
Long-range weapons, meaning missiles and drones, caused the most casualties, accounting for 38% of all those recorded. Missile and long-range drone strikes killed 183 civilians. The rest of the casualties came from aerial bombardment and short-range drone attacks near the front line.
The running total
Since the full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has confirmed the deaths of at least 16,874 civilians in Ukraine, 820 of them children. A further 51,273 people have been injured, including 3,126 children.
Those figures cover only cases the office has confirmed.
Other recent reports describe the same pattern. Mezha, the outlet that carried the UN figures, also noted Russian attacks on Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia with North Korean ballistic missiles, which killed people and injured dozens. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the missiles were launched from four Russian regions while drone strikes continued across frontline communities. In Kherson’s Korabelnyi district, a Russian drone attack killed two men, and authorities said they were working to identify the victims.
