In response to the UN human rights workplace, OHCHR, no less than 139 civilians have been killed and 791 injured thus far in July alone.
“The devastating bodily and psychological impression on civilians of repeated assaults on this and different conflicts can’t be captured by numbers alone,” stated OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell on Tuesday.
Escalating assaults
On the evening of 12 July, Russian forces reportedly launched practically 600 Shahed-type unmanned assault and decoy drones, together with 26 missiles, killing two civilians and injuring 41.
Injury was reported throughout a number of areas, together with Chernivtsi, Lviv, Cherkasy, Volyn and Kirovohrad – all removed from energetic fight zones. Earlier that very same week, Russian forces reportedly launched a record-breaking 728 long-range drones in a single 24-hour interval.
June marked the deadliest month for civilians in over three years.
“Individuals are having to spend hours sheltering (…) in basements, corridors and out there refuges reminiscent of metro stations,” stated Ms. Throssell. “In some circumstances, they’re unable to get to shelter in any respect.”
Well being underneath stress
The UN World Well being Group (WHO) in the meantime has verified 2,504 assaults on well being amenities and personnel in Ukraine because the begin of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022.
These strikes have hit hospitals, ambulances and first responders, together with in so-called “double faucet” assaults the place secondary strikes comply with the preliminary impression.
“This implies greater than two assaults daily…Healthcare is just not a secure place for sufferers and healthcare employees,” stated Dr. Jarno Habicht, WHO Consultant in Ukraine.
Entry to healthcare stays particularly restricted in frontline areas, the place personnel and provides are scarce.
Solely 69 per cent of residents in these areas have seen a major care physician, in comparison with 74 per cent nationally. WHO cell groups working in 82 areas have performed greater than 7,500 consultations in 2025 thus far.
The psychological toll can also be sporting folks down. A current evaluation discovered that seven out of 10 folks reported nervousness, despair or extreme stress over the past 12 months, whereas one in two stated they’d skilled vital stress in simply the previous two months.
To deal with this, WHO and nationwide companions have skilled greater than 125,000 well being employees and expanded psychological well being providers by way of greater than 220 neighborhood resilience centres.
Regardless of continued deliveries of trauma kits and medical provides by UN and humanitarian companions, the response stays critically underfunded. As of mid-July, solely 35.5 per cent of the required $129 million for 2025 has been secured, leaving greater than two million folks with out enough medical assist.
Name for accountability
In Geneva, Ms. Throssell highlighted the UN human rights chief’s requires an instantaneous finish to hostilities and for efforts towards a simply and lasting peace.
“The Russian Federation’s full-scale armed assault on Ukraine should urgently be halted and work on an enduring peace consistent with worldwide regulation should intensify,” Volker Türk stated in a press release.
The Excessive Commissioner emphasised that any sustainable answer should embrace accountability for severe human rights violations, the return of deported kids, safety for civilians in occupied areas, humane remedy of prisoners of struggle, and restoration of humanitarian corridors.
