The United Nations says last year was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022.
At least 2,514 civilians were killed in war-related violence last year, the UN Human Rights Watch said, up from 2,088 in 2024 and 1,974 in 2023. The number of civilians injured has also risen sharply each year.
The deadliest attack of 2025 killed at least 38 civilians in the city of Ternopil in November, the UN said. Eight children were among the victims.
On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian airstrikes overnight had killed four people in Kharkiv and left hundreds of thousands of households without electricity around the capital, Kyiv, in freezing winter weather.
