RUSSIA is firing drones packed with shrapnel at Ukraine to kill and maim civilians — and wants to launch 1,000 every day. President Vladimir Putin has ordered even bigger and more deadly swarms of

Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have significantly escalated in recent months, including a sharp rise in often deadly drone attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.

UN agencies on Thursday warned of devastating recent attacks across Ukraine due to Russian strikes, record civilian casualties recorded last month – and growing deprivation facing children under fire across the country.

The mission reported a total of 6,754 civilian casualties in the first half of 2025, a 54% increase compared to the 4,381 documented during the same period in 2024. Over the past six months, civilian deaths rose by 17%,

The US has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after Washington halted some shipments of critical arms last week.

June 2025 recorded the highest number of civilian casualties in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war, with 232 people killed and 1,343 wounded. — Ukrinform.

In addition to the back-to-back, mammoth overnight strikes, other Russian attacks killed at least 21 civilians across Ukraine on July 7-10. In eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, Russian artillery shelling and drone attacks resulted in 15 civilians deaths,

The halting of deliveries of air defense missiles from the U.S. will lead to“major casualties among civilians,” a deputy commander in Ukraine’s air defense told the Kyiv Independent. Politico reported on July 1 that the U.

In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, the SBU said it believed agents of the Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) had been behind the killing of SBU colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv on Thursday and that it had tried to detain them on Sunday.