Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Monitoring Mission of the UN Human Rights has recorded 12,654 dead and 29 392 wounded among civilians. Among the dead are 673 children, as well as 1865 people who were injured.
It is noted that these data may not reflect the real number of victims, since many cases of death and injuries, in particular in the first days of a full -scale invasion, remain unconfirmed due to restricted access to the affected regions and a large volume of messages. The organization also emphasizes that among the dead and wounded among civilians, a large part is made up of older persons, who make up only 25% of the total population, but in 2024 they accounted for almost half of the dead and more than a third of the wounded in frontline communities.
In addition, from February 2022 to February 2025, at least 790 attacks of Russian troops on medical institutions were recorded, which caused damage or destroyed by medical institutions, as well as 1670 attacks on educational institutions.
