© OCHA/V. Andrievskaya A man walks into a destroyed building in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine: UN mission provided updated data on civilian casualties Peace and Security
In June 2026, the number of civilian deaths and injuries in Ukraine rose again, reaching the highest level since April 2022. According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for Ukraine, at least 293 civilians were killed and another 1,990 were injured in the month.
The report notes that after a sharp increase in the number of victims in May, the situation continued to deteriorate. Compared to the previous month, the number of dead and wounded increased by another 10 percent, and compared to June last year – by 37 percent.
In total, in the first six months of 2026, 1,396 civilians were killed in Ukraine, and another 7,978 were injured. This is 37 percent more than in the same period in 2025, and more than double the figures for the first half of 2024.
The main cause of civilian casualties in June was again attacks by long-range weapons – missiles and drones. They accounted for 45 percent of all dead and wounded: 126 people were killed and 907 were injured. Most of these attacks occurred far from the front line – in large cities, including Kyiv and Dnepr.
At the same time, the Monitoring Mission recorded a record number of casualties from short-range drone attacks in frontline areas since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. In June, such attacks resulted in the death of 89 civilians and the wounding of another 588 people.
Aerial bombing, artillery shelling, multiple launch rocket systems, and explosions of mines and other ammunition left over from combat operations continued to claim lives.
The vast majority of casualties in June was registered in territory under the control of the Ukrainian government. Civilians were injured in 13 regions of the country and Kyiv. The largest number of dead and wounded was recorded in the Zaporozhye region (23 dead and 229 wounded), the Kherson region (18 dead and 236 wounded), the Dnepropetrovsk region (25 dead and 77 wounded), as well as in Kyiv (11 dead and 112 wounded).
The report also states that in June the Russian armed forces continued to strike at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. At the same time, the Monitoring Mission noted a sharp increase in attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities in occupied Crimea. At least 12 of these strikes resulted in emergency or scheduled power outages.