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With 286 civilians killed and 1,388 injured, the July casualty number was the highest since May 2022, topping also those for June 2025. HRMMU [UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine] verified civilian casualties in 18 of the country’s 24 regions in July.
“For the second month in a row, the number of civilian casualties in Ukraine hits a new three-year high,” said Danielle Bell, Head of HRMMU.
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The use of long-range weapons such as missiles and loitering munitions accounted for nearly 40 per cent of the casualties – 89 killed and 572 injured. On 31 July, for example, a missile and loitering munitions attack on Kyiv caused the highest verified number of civilian casualties in the capital since the start of the full-scale invasion, with 31 people killed and 171 injured. The majority of those killed, including five children, were in a residential building that was struck by a missile.
Short-range drones were the second cause of civilian casualties, accounting for 24 per cent of the casualties – 64 killed and 337 injured.
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Aerial bombs dropped by Russian armed forces accounted for the largest increase in civilian casualties with 276 casualties (67 killed and 209 injured) in July 2025 compared with 114 (34 killed and 80 injured) in June 2025.
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The high July casualty numbers continued a pattern of steadily increasing civilian casualties in 2025, HRMMU said. Casualty numbers for the first seven months of 2025 were 48 per cent higher than in the same period in 2024.
“Whether you are in a hospital or a prison, at home or at work, close to or far away from the frontline, if you are in Ukraine today, you are at risk of getting killed or injured by the war,” Bell said.
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