2025 was the deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, according to the United Nations (UN).
Conflict-related violence killed at least 2,514 civilians last year, the UN's Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said, compared with 2,088 in 2024 and 1,974 in 2023. The number of injured civilians also increased sharply each year.
The year's deadliest attack killed at least 38 civilians in the western city of Ternopil in November, it reported, including eight children.
On Tuesday President Volodymyr Zelensky said overnight Russian strikes had killed four people in Kharkiv and left "several hundred thousand households" without power in and around Kyiv amid freezing temperatures.
The total number of civilians killed and injured in 2025 represented a 31% increase on 2024, and 70% on 2023, according to the UN mission.
