The UN has reported a significant rise in civilian casualties in Ukraine between June and November 2025.

Source: a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Details: Danielle Bell, the head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), said that the report has established several worrying trends. These are rising civilian casualties in both frontline and urban areas, sustained attacks on energy infrastructure and continued patterns of systematic and widespread torture and ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees.

The report says that between June and November 2025, civilian casualties rose significantly in both frontline and urban areas.

July marked the highest number of civilian deaths and injuries since April 2022.

At least 36 civilians were killed in a large-scale Russian combined drone and missile attack on the city of Ternopil. The report says this was the deadliest attack in the west of Ukraine since the full-scale invasion began.

Between May and August 2025, Ukraine and the Russian Federation conducted the largest exchanges of prisoners of war (POWs) since 2022.

Bell reported that out of 187 Ukrainian POWs recently freed by the Russian Federation, 185 provided accounts of severe beatings, stress positions, electric shocks, suffocation and dog attacks. A total of 141 people, or 75%, disclosed having been subjected to sexual violence.

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