Russian strikes kill four civilians in Ukraine on 13 July
Russian attacks on 13 July killed four civilians and injured at least 71 others across seven Ukrainian regions, according to the National Police. The fatalities were reported in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson Regions (Oblasts), while injuries were recorded in those regions as well as the Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Odesa regions.
A room in a house damaged by a Russian strike in the Zaporizhzhia OblastVictims of Russian strikes on 14 July included:
- Two men from the village of Petropavlivka in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, who were targeted by a Russian drone.
- Two women from Kherson and Novovorontsovka, who were killed by Russian artillery and guided aerial bomb strikes.
At least 23 civilians were also injured in Russian attacks in the Kherson Oblast.
Among those injured were three petrol station employees, eight medics, a police officer and three municipal workers. Russian attacks caused widespread destruction, damaging nine apartment buildings, five private homes, three ambulances, five trolleybuses, two police vehicles and 14 civilian cars.
Russian attacks also injured 16 civilians in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, most of them residents of Zaporizhzhia city.
Ten civilians were injured in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and another ten in the Kharkiv Oblast, where Russian forces carried out hundreds of attacks. Many of those injured in the Dnipropetrovsk region were residents of Nikopol and Marhanets, while a child was among those injured in the Kharkiv region.
A building damaged by a Russian strike in Kherson.Four adults and one child were injured in Odesa, which was among the targets of an overnight Russian attack. Russian attacks also injured three civilians in the Donetsk Oblast.
In the Sumy Oblast, two civilians were injured in Russian attacks. The daily casualty figures for the region also included two people who had been injured in Russian attacks several days earlier.
On July 12, Russian attacks also killed two civilians in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) on 14 July stated in its monthly report that at least 293 civilians were killed in Russian strikes in June, 2026. It is the highest monthly death toll since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, UN human rights experts have said.
HRMMU also reported that a total of 1,396 civilians were killed and 7,978 injured over the first six months of this year, up 37% on the same period in 2025 and up 114% compared with the first half of 2024.
Since 24 February 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified at least 16,431 civilians killed, including 803 children, and 48,613 injured, including 2,960 children.
Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
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