The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict for July 2024. According to the report, at least 219 civilians were killed and 1,018 were injured in Ukraine in July, making this month the deadliest for civilians since October 2022. The high number of casualties in July continues the trend of increasing civilian deaths since March 2024.
As a result of a large-scale coordinated attack launched by the Russian armed forces across Ukraine on July 8, at least 43 civilians, including 5 children, were killed, and 147 were injured in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region), and Kyiv region. One missile during the July 8 attack also hit a hospital complex in Kyiv, completely destroying the toxicology department of the National Children’s Hospital “Okhmatdyt” and significantly damaging the Children’s Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Center.
In June and July, the most intense offensive military actions by Russian armed forces shifted from northern Kharkiv region to Donetsk. As a result, confirmed civilian casualties in Donetsk region increased from 125 killed or injured civilians in May to 224 in June and 269 in July 2024.
The vast majority of civilian casualties (90 percent) and damage to educational and medical facilities (86 percent) continued to occur in government-controlled areas.
The full text of the report is available at the link.
