Ukraine: 'recent attacks left a devastating toll on civilians' - DPPA Briefing | United Nations

“In the past week alone, three massive waves of Russian aerial strikes targeted Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, further raising the alarming civilian death toll and widening the destruction,” UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council. Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs DiCarlo briefed the Security Council (9 Jul) on the situation in Ukraine, warning that recent attacks had left a “devastating” toll on civilians. “These attacks show a clear pattern. They targeted urban centers with large civilian populations and destroyed or severely damaged residential buildings, with devastating consequences for the people living there. We condemn these attacks in the strongest terms,” she said. DiCarlo noted that Ukraine had also continued drone attacks inside the Russian Federation, targeting oil, industrial and military infrastructure. “Some of these attacks have reportedly resulted in civilian casualties and damage to civilian, including residential, infrastructure,” she said. She told Council members that since the start of the Russian Federation's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the UN Human Rights Office had verified that at least 16,402 civilians, including 802 children, had been killed in Ukraine, while 548,428 civilians, including 2,948 children, had been injured. “Russian authorities have reported that 250 civilians were killed and 1,596 injured in the Russian Federation in the first six months of 2026. The United Nations is not in a position to verify these reports,” she added.


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