Emergency workers recover a body after a Russian strike on a residential building in Kyiv. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
At least 293 civilians were killed in Russian strikes in June, the highest monthly death toll since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, UN human rights experts have said.
Source: a monthly report by UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) on 14 July; press release by HRMMU
Quote: "After May recorded the highest number of civilian casualties in over four years, June surpassed it, with at least 293 civilians killed and 1,990 injured, becoming the month with the highest number of civilians killed and injured since April 2022."
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