The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on Monday that in Ukraine last year saw the most civilian casualties since 2022, when the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow began. The AFP agency drew attention to it, writes TASR.
“Total civilian casualties in Ukraine in 2025 reached at least 2,514 dead and 12,142 injured, a 31 percent increase compared to 2024,” the OHCHR said in a report released on Monday.
“Our monitoring showed that this increase was due not only to the intensification of frontline fighting, but also to the greater use of long-range weapons, which put civilians across the country at increased risk,” Danielle Bellová, head of the OHCHR monitoring mission in Ukraine, said in a press release.
AFP points out that there is no reliable data on the total number of civilians killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion almost four years ago. According to Monday’s report, the OHCHR has so far confirmed almost 15,000 civilian casualties. “The actual extent of civilian casualties … is likely to be substantially higher,” added the office, highlighting problematic access to some areas of the country, especially those that have come under Russian control.
The latest reports of Ukrainian civilian casualties come as US diplomatic efforts to end the war stalled after Russia rejected the proposed peace plan last week. According to the proposal, European countries would send their soldiers to Ukraine after the end of the war, AFP reminds.
