Published on: 2026-04-10
Source: United Nations – United Nations –
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In March, the number of casualties among the civilian population of Ukraine increased by 49 percent compared to the previous month. At least 211 people were killed and 1,206 were injured, reported the United Nations Monitoring Mission on Human Rights in the country (UNMMHR) in its latest monthly report, published on Friday.
The mission also notes that over the course of nine days in April, at least 46 civilians were killed, and 343 people were injured. Most of the civilians – 66 people – died as a result of attacks by short-range drones.
In April, drone strikes continued: on April 4, in the frontline city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of an attack using short-range unmanned aerial vehicles on a local market, five civilians were killed, and 26 people, including a 14-year-old girl, were injured. Three days later, on April 7, as a result of a strike by a close-range drone on a bus, four people were killed, and 17 were injured.
The mission reports that the number of victims of such attacks has increased significantly over the past two years. In 2025, this figure was 121 percent higher than in 2024, and in March 2026 it increased by 70 percent compared to March 2025.
“Frontline areas are extremely dangerous for the civilian population, mainly due to close-range drone strikes,” said the head of the ICCU, Daniel Bell. She reported that half of the victims among civilians in these areas last month were elderly people. Some of them were at the moment of attack “going for their pension or working in their gardens,” Bell added.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has confirmed that since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 15,578 civilians have died, including 784 children, and 43,352 people have been injured, including 2,668 children.
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