2025 was the deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, according to the United Nations (UN), BBC reported.
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, according to BBC.
