The United Nations recorded the highest monthly civilian death toll in Ukraine since April 2022 last month, as Russia intensified long-range missile strikes, according to a report published Tuesday.
"After May recorded the highest number of civilian casualties in over four years, June surpassed it, with at least 293 civilians killed," the U.N.'s human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine said.
Earlier Tuesday, Russia launched a barrage of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, the fifth such attack on the Ukrainian capital so far this month.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attacks damaged 16 sites in the capital, including a school and a business, while city officials reported several fires across the city.
Russia also targeted critical infrastructure in central and southern Ukraine, Zelenskyy said, adding that the attacks injured seven people in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region and three in the northern Chernihiv region.
