Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)

On 3 March 2022, just after 12:00 (UTC+2), six Russian unguided aerial bombs were filmed falling in a residential area in Chernihiv. Analysis by Amnesty International found that (at least) eight bombs fell. Two schools (No.18 and No.21) and 8 private houses in the intersection between the Viacheslava Chornovila and Kruhova streets () were destroyed, 7 more houses were also heavily damaged in the vicinity of the Biloruskyi Lane. Local emergency services recorded 38 men and 9 women killed (47 in total) by the bombing and 18 people injured. Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, stated that the bombing "violated the principles of distinction, of proportionality, the rule on feasible precautions and the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks". The incident happened at around 10:00 UTC+3. Victims of the incident were killed following a blast shot from heavy artillery. These civilians were unarmed and some of them survived the shelling; they were taken to medical facilities by the Chernihiv police. An American citizen was among the dead. Around four hours after the incident, the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office filed a legal case regarding the attack. The Chernihiv Oblast branch of the Security Service of Ukraine also started an investigation. The detonator of the warhead of the missile was configured for air detonation, so all the dead and the vast majority of the injured were from outside the drama theater. According to the acting mayor of the city, the military exhibition held in the building was the likely target. Early reporting indicated five people killed and 42 injured, including 11 children presumably among the injured. The estimates went up to 90 injured, including 25 hospitalized, and six dead after a six-year-old child died in the hospital, and then seven dead after another women's body was found. On 26 December 2025, senators from the US Democratic and Republican parties condemned Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians gathering to celebrate Christmas, with a Russian drone strike on a multi-story building killing an 80-year-old woman and injuring 10 people, including three children. == Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ==

On 7 April 2022, there were three strikes on the oblast during the day. Russian forces struck Synelnykove and Kryvyi Rih raions. About four people died and seven were injured. Two civilians also went missing. Dnipro strikes On 11 March 2022, three missiles hit the city and killed one person, striking close to an apartment building and a kindergarten. On 28 June, Russian forces fired six 3M-14E Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea to Dnipro at around 5:30 local time. One of them hit an Avtodiesel car repair shop, killing a man and a woman. Seven other people, including a six-year-old boy, were injured. Fragments of the Kalibr missile were found afterwards. On the morning of 29 September 2022 missiles hit residential areas in Dnipro, and three people were killed. The central bus station was also hit. Dnipro was also hit during the 10 October 2022 Russian missile strikes. It was hit by at least five missiles, During the attack that took place during morning rush hour three civilians were killed. On 18 October 2022, Russian missiles hit energy infrastructure in Dnipro. One man was injured and a large-scale fire broke out at an energy facility that was severely damaged, more than three dozen residential buildings were damaged, including schools and kindergartens. On 25 October 2022 two people were killed, including a pregnant woman, and four injured due to a fire at a gas station after fragments of a Russian missile hit it. On 26 November 2022, around noon, a Russian missile strike on Dnipro injured 13 people and partially destroyed seven private houses in Dnipro's Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District. Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov reported that city communications and infrastructure were not damaged. Governor Valentyn Reznichenko stated that due to the attack one woman was hospitalised in critical condition. The following day Reznichenko reported that a man was found dead under the rubble. Another Russian missile strike destroyed an enterprise on the night of 29 November 2022, no casualties were reported. On 28 July 2025, a Russian missile strike on Kamianske damaged multiple buildings, including a maternity hospital. Two civilians were killed and five were wounded, including two women critically, one of them pregnant. On 29 April 2025, regional governor Lysak said that Russia had launched a mass drone attack on Dnipro using Shahed drones, setting several homes on fire and killing one 53-year-old man. On 24 March 2026, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, said that nine people had been injured by a Russian drone striking a 14-storey building in Dnipro, including an 18-month old boy. On 14 April 2026, Hanzha said that a Russian attack during the morning on the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed five people and wounded 27. On 23 April, Hanzha reported another attack, with Russian drones killing two people and wounding 10, with two young girls aged nine and 14 being among the wounded as the attack damaged infrastructure, including a 13-storey residential building. Dnipro apartment block strike On 14 January 2023 at about 3:30p.m., a Russian Kh-22 type missile hit a nine-story residential building in Dnipro on the , Sobornyi District in the right-bank part of the city, destroying one entrance and 236 apartments. On 19 January the official casualty rate was stated as 46 people killed, 80 injured (12 in critical condition) and 11 people reported missing. 14 children were reported among the injured, and 39 inhabitants were rescued. The destruction left about 400 people homeless. This strike became the most destructive Russian attack on a residential building in Ukraine in the last six months. A three-day period of mourning was declared in Dnipro. February 2026 drone strike on bus carrying mineworkers On 1 February 2026, a Russian drone struck a bus carrying mineworkers, killing at least a dozen people and injuring several others, according to Ukrainian emergency services. Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal called the attack a ″cynical and targeted attack on energy sector workers″. DTEK, the company that owns the bus, accused Russia of also carrying out a ″large-scale terrorist attack″ on its mines. Kryvyi Rih missile strikes Russian missiles struck residential buildings in the southern central city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, several times. On 13 June 2023, Russian cruise missiles struck an apartment block and civilian warehouses in Kryvyi Rih, killing thirteen people. On 31 July 2023, a Russian missile struck an apartment block in Kryvyi Rih, killing at least six civilians, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother. On 28 August 2024, local authorities said that Kryvyi Rih was struck by a Russian missile which hit civilian infrastructure. Eight people were reported to have been wounded by the attack. As it was struck, Kryvyi Rih was observing an official day of mourning for an attack the previous day that had killed four civilians in a hotel. On 28 October 2024, a Russian missile struck a residential building in Kryvyi Rih, killing one person and wounding at least 11. On 6 December 2024, two people were killed by a Russian missile strike on an administrative building. Emergency services added that residential houses had also been damaged and 19 people, including a child, had been injured in the attack. On 12 March 2025, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Serhiy Lysak said that a Russian missile attack killed a woman and injured at least nine others, the attack also damaging several buildings, including an educational facility and high-rise apartments. On 2 April 2025, Ukrainska Pravda reported that Russia had struck Kryvyi Rih with a ballistic missile. The attack damaged multi-storey residential buildings, a gym, and an administrative building. According to the local military administration, four people were killed and 14 were injured, including two children. On 4 April 2025, Russia struck a dense residential area with a missile, spraying shrapnel which also hit a playground. The attack killed 20 people, 11 adults and nine children, and dozens of people were injured. According to Reuters, the strike, described as one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in months, jeopardised the US's push for a ceasefire in the war. The United Nations called the strike Russia's deadliest attack on Ukrainian children in the three years since the invasion started. In January 2026, the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council, Oleksandr Vilkul, said that a combined Russian missile and drone attack had struck a residential area, injuring 17 people, including three children and eight women. Chaplyne railway station strike On 24 August 2022, the Independence Day of Ukraine, Russian forces struck Chaplyne, damaging a railway station, a utility building, and a residential neighborhood. Several passenger rail cars were set on fire and destroyed. At least 25 people (including 2 children) died and about 31 were injured. The Russian defense ministry claimed it had targeted a military train using a single Iskander missile, and that the attack had killed 200 Ukrainian soldiers. According to an Associated Press reporter on site, there was no visible indication that Ukrainian soldiers were among the victims. International legal experts said that the attack might qualify as a war crime if civilians were the target. == Donetsk Oblast ==

There were at least 7,395 civilian casualties (of which 3,511 killed) in the government-controlled territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and 2,035 civilian casualties (of which 467 killed) in the territory controlled by the Russian forces and affiliated groups between February and November 2022. The months-long siege of Mariupol caused a large number of civilian casualties and a few other attacks with many civilian casualties occurred in the oblast. Donetsk itself experienced several attacks with civilian casualties, including the shelling of a market and the mayor's office. Pro-Russian officials blamed Ukraine for the attacks while Ukraine blamed Russia or did not comment on the attacks. On 8 August 2022 the UK Ministry of Defence issued a statement accusing Russia of using anti-personnel PFM-1 scatterable anti-personnel mines along the defensive lines in Donbas, adding that such mines are undiscriminate and pose a threat to civilians. Vuhledar cluster bomb attack On 24 February 2022, 10:30 (UTC), Vuhledar was attacked with an 9M79 Tochka missile, which landed next to a hospital and killed four civilians and injured ten. Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that the Vuhledar hospital attack used a 9N123 cluster munition. The 9N123 contains fifty 9N24 individual submunitions, which each split into 316 bomblets. HRW based its analysis on contacts with the hospital and municipal administrations and multiple photographic evidence. HRW called for Russian forces to stop making "unlawful attacks with weapons that indiscriminately kill and maim". Lyman cluster bomb attack On 8 July 2023, Russian cluster bombs launched by a BM-30 Smerch struck a residential area of Lyman, in Donetsk Oblast. Nine civilians were killed and nineteen wounded. Witnesses said residents "had gathered to trade dairy products and fresh produce from their gardens, as they did most mornings". The use of cluster bombs in areas with civilians "makes an attack indiscriminate, in violation of international humanitarian law". Siege of Mariupol Between 1–2 March 2022, Russian artillery reportedly shelled a densely populated neighbourhood in the city for nearly 15 hours, causing significant destruction. Deputy mayor Sergei Orlov reported that "at least hundreds of people [were] dead." On 16 March the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that Russian forces continued to commit war crimes in Mariupol including "targeting civilian infrastructure". On 18 March, Lieutenant General James Hockenhull, Chief of Defence Intelligence for the United Kingdom (UK), described "continued targeting of civilians in Mariupol". As of 20 March local authorities have estimated that at least 2,300 people were killed during the siege. On 20 March 2022, Ukrainian authorities announced that Russian troops had bombed an art school in the city where hundreds (about 400) were sheltering. The Mariupol City Council made the announcement through the instant messaging service Telegram, highlighting that many of those sheltering in the school were women, children and elderly. However, Petro Andryushchenko, an advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol, raised the concern that there was no exact number on how many people were using the school as a refuge. By 18 April, Ukrainian officials estimated that at least 95% of Mariupol had been destroyed in the fighting, largely as a result of the Russian bombing campaigns. City officials reported that up to 21,000 civilians had been killed. On 16 June, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that evidence strongly suggests the Russian armed forces committed serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in Mariupol, including the shelling and rocket attacks that destroyed much of the city. In a separate statement, Human Rights Watch said Russia's military tactics were indiscriminate and caused a disproportionate effect on the civilians in the city. It also warned that going forward, access to the city and preservation of evidence were likely to be issues, given Russia's occupation of the city, and it called for international accountability. Independent media and the Ukrainian side accused the Russian military of bombing civilian shelters with cluster munitions during shelling of the city and attacks on Azovstal. According to the mayor of Mariupol, at the end of April, during the two-month siege of the city by Russian troops, more than 20 thousand people died - twice as many than the 2 year occupation of the city during World War II. Oksana Pokalchuk, director of Amnesty International Ukraine, said they were able to prove the use of cluster munitions by Russia after interviewing a victim who provided them with a fragment of ammunition that was removed from his thigh. Targeting of humanitarian corridors During shelling of Mariupol by Russian forces, a number of attempts to establish a humanitarian evacuation corridor to evacuate civilians from the city were made, but failed when the corridor was targeted by Russian forces. On 5 March, a five-hour ceasefire was declared, but evacuations were quickly halted after shelling continued during the declared time. The next day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that a second attempt to establish an evacuation corridor had failed. Mariupol hospital airstrike On 9 March 2022, the Children's and Maternity Hospital No. 3, a hospital complex functioning both as a children's hospital and maternity ward, Ukrainian authorities described the damage to the hospital as "colossal". Video footage following the attacks showed "much of the front of the building ... ripped away" and "mangled cars burning outside". Hospital wards were "reduced to a wreckage, walls [had] collapsed, rubble cover[ed] medical equipment, windows [were] blown out and shattered glass [was] everywhere". On 10 March, local authorities stated that one girl and two other people had been killed in the bombing, one of whom was a woman at a late stage of pregnancy; neither she nor her unborn child survived. British prime minister Boris Johnson described the attack as "depraved". António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, wrote that the attack was "horrific" and that "this senseless violence must stop." On 10 March, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence publicly claimed that the bombing was justified. According to Ukrainska Pravda, foreign minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that the bombing of the hospital was a deliberate action. He stated, "A few days ago, at a UN Security Council meeting, the Russian delegation presented factual information that this maternity hospital had long been taken over by the Azov Battalion and other radicals and that all the women in labour, all the nurses and in general all the staff had been told to leave it. It was a base of the ultra-radical Azov Battalion." Meduza stated that the Russian representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, had on 7 March referred to Maternity Hospital No 1 () as a hospital that he claimed was used by Ukrainian armed forces as a firing point, not Maternity Hospital No 3. Meduza described Lavrov as having confused Hospital No 1, referred to by Nebenzya, with the hospital that was bombed, Hospital No 3. Under a new law passed on 4 March, he could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. Mariupol theatre airstrike conducted by the Russian Armed Forces on 16 March 2022 On 16 March, Ukraine accused Russian forces of shelling civilian areas in Mariupol. Artillery hit numerous locations, including a swimming pool building and a vehicle convoy; shelling then struck the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre that was being used as an air raid shelter with a large number of civilians inside, the building was reduced to rubble. The bomb shelter in the basement of the theatre survived the bombing, but many people were still trapped underneath the burning rubble. A member of the Ukrainian parliament from Mariupol, Dmytro Gurin, said that the rescue efforts were hampered due to continued attacks on the area by Russian forces. By 17 March, the number of casualties was unclear; some emerged alive. By 18 March, around 130 survivors had been rescued. The Mariupol City Council stated that according to initial information, no one had been killed, although one person was gravely wounded. On 25 March, the council estimated that about 300 people had been killed as a result of the airstrike. On 4 May, Associated Press published an investigation with evidence pointing to 600 dead in the airstrike. Many survivors estimated around 200 people–including rescuers–escaping through the main exit or one side entrance; the other side and the back were crushed. Estimates of civilian deaths vary, ranging from at least a dozen (Amnesty International) to 600 (Associated Press). Ukraine accused the Russian Armed Forces of deliberately bombing the theatre while it was sheltering civilians. Russia first claimed that the reason the theatre was bombed was because it was "being used as a base by the Ukrainian military", and then denied the allegations and instead accused the Azov Battalion of blowing up the building, Both Russian claims have been refuted by independent investigation. The theatre is among the many Ukrainian heritage and cultural sites destroyed during the invasion. The attack was classified as a war crime by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Amnesty International. At approximately 10:30, two missiles hit near the railway station building in Kramatorsk, and the first reports were published in Ukrainian media at around 10:45. the attack left at least 60 dead and 110+ wounded. Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of Donetsk oblast, later specified that they had rather been Tochka-U missiles armed with cluster munitions. It also bore serial number Ш91579, which investigators said could potentially help trace it back to its original arsenal. Initially, Russian state media and pro-Russian telegram channels claimed successful Russian airstrikes on a military transport target in Kramatorsk. However, after it became clear that the missiles had killed civilians, earlier reports were redacted, the Russian government also denied responsibility for the attack, and the Russian Ministry of Defence characterized it as a "Ukrainian hoax". The Russian Ministry of Defence later claimed that the missiles were launched by Ukrainian forces from the city of Dobropillia, southwest of Kramatorsk. Russian media also said that the serial number of the missile was in the same range as one used by Ukrainian forces, however, these claims were rapidly debunked. A fake video clip with a mock BBC logo, attributing blame to the Ukrainian forces, circulated through pro-Russian telegram channels and Russian state television since 10 April. However, the BBC said that it has not produced any such video. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that their forces no longer use Tochka-U missiles. However, Amnesty International had published videos about use of Tochka-U missiles in other cities before Kramatorsk. investigators from the open-source Belarusian Hajun project had also published videos of several Russian trucks with Tochka missiles heading from Belarus to Ukraine with 'V' markings on 5 and 30 March. The Institute for the Study of War assessed that the Russian 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, which is active in the Donbas area, is equipped with Tochka-U missiles. Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, and Oleksandr Kamyshin, chairman of Ukrainian Railways described the event as "war crimes" and "a crime against humanity" by Russian forces. The Security Service of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings under Article 438 of the Criminal Code. Royal United Services Institute analyst Justin Bronk said that Russia aimed to damage Ukrainian transport infrastructure to make it difficult for Ukrainian forces to move around Donbas. He also suggested that Russia opted for the Tochka-U missile type due to its use by the Ukrainian army, in order to "muddy the waters". Kramatorsk restaurant strike On 27 June 2023, Russian forces attacked a pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk with an Iskander missile, killing 13 people including four children and Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina. About sixty people were wounded. Kramatorsk was about 18 miles (30 km) from the eastern frontline. The restaurant was popular with local civilians, war correspondents, humanitarian volunteers, as well as Ukrainian soldiers on leave to 'rest and recuperate' and meet their loved ones. Several journalists were having a meal when the missile struck, including three Colombians. Chasiv Yar missile strike On 9 July 2022, a missile strike on two residential buildings in Chasiv Yar was carried out by the Russian Armed Forces at 21:17 local time. At least 48 people were killed, Due to the impact, a five-story residential building partially collapsed. Two entrances were completely destroyed. The strike was alleged, including by Donetsk Oblast governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, to have been performed with "Uragan", a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. As of 10 July 67 rescue workers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine were trying to help the victims and more than 20 people were still feared to be trapped under the rubble. Rescue and search operations continued until the morning of 14 July 2022. Rescuers dismantled about 525 tons of destroyed elements of the building. 323 employees of the State Emergency Service and 9 units of equipment were involved. As of 13 July 48 dead were found under the rubble of the building, and nine wounded were rescued as of 12 July. Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukraine's president, said that the strike was "another terrorist attack" and that Russia should be designated a "state sponsor of terrorism" as a result. Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov stated that Russia had killed "over 300 nationalists" in an attack on Chasiv Yar, but did not specify whether or not they were referring to the July airstrike or an earlier attack. The Russian Foreign Ministry and local sources accused the Ukrainian army of being responsible for their deployment. The so-called "butterfly mines" are banned under the 1997 Ottawa Treaty (signed by Ukraine but not by Russia) due to the high danger they pose to civilians. Sloviansk missile strike On 14 April 2023, on Orthodox Christian Good Friday, Russian forces launched eight S-300 missiles at Sloviansk. One struck a five-storey residential building, killing 15 civilians, including a child, and wounding 24. Kostiantynivka shopping centre missile attack On 9 August 2024, a Kostiantynivka shopping centre was struck by a Russian air-to-surface missile in the middle of the day. Ukrainian authorities reported at least 14 deaths and 43 injuries. Pokrovsk missiles strikes Dobropillia airstrikes On 8 March 2025, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and Donetsk Oblast Governor Vadym Filashkin said that Russian missile and drone attacks on Dobropillia had killed 11 people and injured 47, with children being among five of the dead and seven of the injured. The attack took place shortly after US president Donald Trump halted intelligence sharing with Ukraine, causing concerns that Russian missiles could now strike cities without prior warning. Yarova airstrike On 9 September 2025, officials said a Russian guided bomb struck the village of Yarova, killing 24 elderly people that were collecting their pensions in the village, and wounding another 19 people. 2025 Christmas attack On 26 December 2025, senators from the US Democratic and Republican parties condemned Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians gathering to celebrate Christmas, with a Russian strike in Donetsk killing a volunteer from Kharkiv. == Bombardment of Izium ==

On 3 March 2022, Russian forces bombed the central hospital in Izium, Eight people died and the hospital sustained "significant damage". On 8 March, the same recently refurbished hospital in the city was destroyed during shelling, this was followed on 11 March by an attack to a psychiatric hospital. On 15 September 2022, after Ukrainian forces had retaken Izium, several mass graves were discovered of more than 440 bodies buried in a forest northeast of the city. among the dead, some had reportedly died as a result of shelling and airstrikes. Forensic investigations and questioning of witnesses were ongoing as of 16 September 2022. == Kharkiv Oblast ==

Bombardment of Kharkiv shelled by Russian forces During and after the Battle of Kharkiv, extensive parts of residential areas have been destroyed by Russian shelling. According to a HRW report published on 4 March, on 28 February, at around 10:00 AM, Russian forces fired cluster munitions with Grad rockets into at least three different residential areas in Kharkiv, killing at least nine civilians and injuring another 37. The locations hit were residential buildings and a playground, dispersed between Industrialnyi and Shevchenkivskyi District. Explosions in the city were recorded as late as 2:23 PM. Out of an initial population of 1.8 million, only 500,000 people remained in Kharkiv by 7 March. At the time, hundreds of people were waiting outside a post office in the mall to obtain humanitarian aid. Six people were killed and at least 15 further were injured. Two further cluster bombings damaged the nearby Holy Trinity Church where volunteers were preparing humanitarian aid. Nine civilians died and 35 were injured, including children. The local hospital received wounded people with pieces of steel rod and shrapnel in their limbs. On 13 June Amnesty International published a report on what it called the "relentless campaign of indiscriminate bombardments against Kharkiv" causing "wholesale destruction" in the city from 24 February until late April. The mayor Ihor Terekhov said that the areas shelled were residential areas with "no military significance", including several civilian houses, stores, a tire repair store, and a school. Reuters confirmed that at least one residential structure had been hit. Authorities said that six civilians had died, including a 17-year old teenager and his father. In the Slobidskyi District, a four-story hostel of a tram depot was hit together with adjacent repair workshop and an neighboring non-residential building. The second missile attack was carried out at 21:30 and destroyed a three-story hostel in the Saltivskyi district, where people with hearing impairments lived, In the Slobidskyi district, two people were killed initially killed, with the bodies of six people subsequently being excavated from under the ruins, 18 were also injured, including two children. including an 11-year-old child, in total, 27 (including 1 child) were killed and 44 (including 3 children) were injured. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the missile attack on Kharkiv in its briefing, According to their version, "a high-precision ground-based weapon hit a temporary base for foreign mercenaries" and as a result, "more than 90 militants were destroyed". President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said: "When you hear about Kharkiv Saltivka, it's pain again. Pain for all Ukraine. Pain for Kharkiv," he wrote. "Rocket attack... On the hostel... The building is completely destroyed." The President described the killing of residents as "a vile and cynical blow to civilians, which has no justification and demonstrates the impotence of the aggressor". On 6 April 2024, Ukrainian authorities said that Russian missile attacks had killed seven people and wounded a dozen in Kharkiv, with the strikes damaging administrative buildings, dormitories, shops, high-rise buildings and a kindergarten. The Kharkiv police said that Russia attacked the city with two S-300 missiles, and then engaged with drones during the rescue operations. On 30 August 2024, at least five people, including a 14-year old girl, were killed in Kharkiv by a reported Russian glide bomb attack that struck a 12-story apartment building and the playground in front of it. Dozens of people were also wounded in the attack. On 28 October 2024, a Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv shattered much of the Derzhprom, a building placed on the "tentative" list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Six people were injured in the attack, with another 13 being wounded in an earlier overnight bomb attack. On 29 April 2025, regional officials said that dozens of people had been injured after Russian drone strikes on Kharkiv, including two children and a pregnant woman. On 10–11 June 2025, Russian drone strikes killed three people and injured 60, nine children aged between two and 15 being among the injured, caused by 17 drones striking two residential areas according to officials. On 24 July 2025, regional officials said that two people were killed and at least 33 wounded when Russian glide bombs struck a residential neighbourhood. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said a month-old infant and a 10-year-old child were among the wounded. On 28 July 2025, a Russian strike on on a queue for humanitarian aid in the north-eastern Kharkiv region killed five people. On 18 August 2025, there were multiple Russian strikes on Kharkiv. The local mayor said that a ballistic missile had wounded 11 people, while hours later a Russian drone attack on a residential building killed seven people, an entire family including a toddler and her brother aged 16 being among the killed. Authorities also said that 23 people had been wounded in the drone attack, which reduced part of the building to rubble and caused fires across multiple floors. The attacks took place hours before Zelenskyy and several European officials were expected to have talks with U.S. President Trump, with Zelenskyy denouncing the attacks as ″Moscow trying to pressure Ukraine and Europe″ and ″humiliate diplomatic efforts to end the war.″ On 22 October 2025, officials said that Russia had struck a kindergarten in Kharkiv with children in attendance around 9 AM local time, setting it ablaze and killing one person while wounding seven others, six of them children. The attack caused the evacuation of dozens of children, reportedly causing acute stress reactions in many of them. The attack took place hours after Trump-Putin talks collapsed. On 17 November 2025, a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv damaged residential blocks in the city center, killing three people and wounding 11 according to regional officials, with four minors being among the injured. Kupiansk civilian convoy massacre Hroza missile attack On 5 October 2023, Russian forces attacked the small village of Hroza with an Iskander missile, killing 59 people and wounding many more. It targeted a café that was hosting a memorial gathering for a local Ukrainian soldier. The strike killed a fifth of the village's inhabitants, including the fallen soldier's widow and son, and is one of the deadliest attacks on civilians during the war. Ukrainian authorities said the attack was clearly deliberate, and there was speculation that a spy gave Russian forces the location. Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, claimed that many of those attending the memorial were "Nazis". Volnovakha massacre November 2025 Kruhliakivka drone attack On 4 November 2025, a pre-trial war-crimes investigation in Kharkiv was opened after a video recorded near Kruhliakivka appeared to show a Russian drone killing two civilians and their dog. According to the statement by Kharkiv's Regional Prosecutor's Office, the civilians were carrying a white flag as they were walking along the road when they were struck and killed by the drone. November 2025 Berestyn missile attack On 18 November 2025, regional officials said that a 17-year-old girl had been killed and nine others wounded in an overnight attack by Russian missiles on Berestyn. January 2026 missile and drone strikes On 2 January 2026, officials said that two people, preliminary information suggesting a mother and her three-year-old child, had been killed and around 28 people wounded after a Russian missile almost completely destroyed a residential apartment block. On 13 January, officials said four people had been killed and six wounded in a Russian drone attack, which took place hours after the US had accused Russia of ″dangerous and inexplicable escalation″ of the war. On 27 January, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group said that a passenger train had been struck by Russian drones while travelling in Kharkiv Oblast, with one drone directly hitting a carriage engulfing it in flames. At least five people were reported to have been killed in the attack, which Zelenskyy described as an ″act of terrorism″. March 2026 missile and drone strikes On 7 March 2026, regional officials said that ten people, including two children, had been killed after a Russian ballistic missile hit a five-story residential building, 15 people were also reported to have been injured, including three children. ==Kherson Oblast==

Shelling of Kherson store on 3 May 2023 The city of Kherson was liberated from Russian occupation in November 2022. Russian troops continued to shell the city from the other side of the Dnipro River. On 3 May 2023, Russian artillery struck a supermarket, a train station and residential buildings Kherson, killing 23 people and wounding 46. Among those killed were three engineers repairing damage inflicted on the power grid in earlier Russian strikes. On 3 December 2025, the rector of the Kherson National Technical University reported that a scientific staff member of the university, Tetiana Asauluk, had been killed by Russian shelling. Deliberate drone attacks on Kherson civilians In October 2024, Forbes reported that Russians were using drones to deliberately target civilians in Kherson, and then ″proudly″ sharing the footage of the attacks on social media. Attacks being ″shared and celebrated″ included on commuters, people at bus stops, and on children playing in parks. This terror campaign has become known as the ″Human Safari″. One of the instances described as a ″typical case″ was a Ukrainian mother-of-two who was cycling home when a Russian drone spotted her and followed her until dropping a grenade, which injured her with shrapnel, leaving her unable to walk. Imagery of the attack was posted on a Russian Telegram channel with a winking face emoji and falsely describing her as a soldier. In July 2025, local authorities said a one-year-old boy who was staying with his great-grandmother in Pravdyne had been struck by a Russian drone. The child died on the scene from injuries sustained from the explosion, and his grandmother was injured. The attack was part of a wider attack on Kherson, which wounded 17 people across the region. Other than targeting individual civilians, Russian drones using a napalm-like mixture to start fires burning down entire neighbourhoods, and scattering mines powerful enough to destroy a tire or blow a foot off have also been noted. to cause as much devastation to the local civilian population as possible, and have led to several civilian deaths. These attacks constitute direct terror bombings directly targeted at civilians, including the deliberate bombing of the local school resulting in the death of one employee and left another severely wounded. 2025 Christmas attack On 26 December 2025, senators from the US Democratic and Republican parties condemned Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians gathering to celebrate Christmas, with three people reported to be injured by shelling in central Kherson. == Kyiv Oblast ==

Kyiv missile and drone strikes Ukraine's capital Kyiv, a city of some three million people, was among the first targets of Russian airstrikes. Kindergartens and orphanages were also shelled. On 10 October 2022, 8:00 a.m. local time, several explosions rang out in the Shevchenkivskyi and Solomianskyi District of Kyiv. This was announced by the mayor of the capital Vitali Klitschko. According to Anton Herashchenko, the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one of the rockets in Kyiv fell near the monument to Mykhailo Hrushevsky on the Volodymyrskaya street. A missile struck the Kyiv Glass Bridge at 8:18 local time. The blast wave damaged the building and the roof of the central station Kyiv-Passenger. According to Rostyslav Smirnov, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, at least eight people were killed and 24 were injured as a result of several hits in different places in Kyiv. Areas struck by missiles included nearby a children's playground. A fire broke out in six cars, and more than 15 cars were damaged. The Kyiv Metro's red line and the Teatralna–Golden Gate interchange node subway trains stopped running and the underground tunnels became shelters for citizens. Smoke also rose over the . March 2025 drone attack On 22 March 2025, Ukrainian officials said that a large-scale Russian drone attack on Kyiv killed three people, including a five-year-old child and her father, and injured eight people. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia had launched 147 drones targeting several parts of the country. Debris from destroyed drones caused damage throughout the city, causing fires in high-rise apartment buildings. The attack happened less than a week after Russia announced a ″partial 30-day ceasefire″ amid a US push for a peace deal. April 2025 joint missile and drone barrage On 24 April 2025, Russia struck Kyiv for an hour with both missiles and drones, killing at least 12 people and wounding approximately 90 people. The strikes began around 1 AM, and hit at least five neighborhoods, causing major damage to residential buildings. The Associated Press described the attack as the deadliest attack on Kyiv since July, and it drew criticism of Putin by US president Trump, who AP described as ″reluctant to criticize the Kremlin″. Following the attack, also carried out amid US-led peace efforts, Trump said the attack was ″bad timing″ and told Putin to ″stop″. May 2025 air attack In May 2025, Russia launched a three-day long wave of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, with the primary target being Kyiv. The attack started on 24 May and involved hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, and was described by Reuters as the war's largest air attack on Ukraine up until that point. According to officials, no deaths were reported in Kyiv, but at least 15 people were injured in the city and apartment buildings were damaged. At least 12 people were killed in the attack, including four people in the region around Kyiv and three children in Zhytomyr. The attack started hours after Russia and Ukraine began a significant prisoner exchange, seen as a first step to a ceasefire between the countries. June 2025 strikes On 10 June 2025, officials said that Russia launched one of its largest strikes on Kyiv, causing widespread damage in seven out of ten of the city's districts, and injuring four people. A week later, Russia again launched a sustained missile and drone bombardment on the city early on 17 June, the attack caused the demolishing of a nine-story apartment building, killing 28 people and injuring over 100. July 2025 strikes On 10 July 2025, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko confirmed that two women had been killed in Kyiv following Russian drone strikes hitting eight districts in the city. The mayor, Klitschko, said that a primary healthcare center in the Podilskyi District was ″almost completely destroyed″ in the attack. On 31 July, at least 28 people were killed by a barrage of Russian missiles and drones striking several districts across Kyiv. Ukrainian officials said that three children, the youngest three years old, were among the dead. 159 people were also reported to have been wounded in the attack, which collapsed an apartment block. Several other buildings were damaged, including a hospital ward for children in Shevchenkivskyi which was damaged by a shockwave. August 2025 strikes on civilians, EU mission and British Council On 28 August 2025, The Russian Armed Forces launched nearly 600 drones and more than 30 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine, striking multiple residential areas, killing 23 people, including four children, and wounding dozens more. A five-story residential building was destroyed, and the EU mission and nearby British Council were damaged. Officials said three of the children killed were aged two, 14 and 17. Several other youngsters were wounded. October 2025 drone and missile attacks On 10 October 2025, Ukrainian authorities said that Russia targeted civilian and energy infrastructure in Kyiv with drones and missiles, wounding 20 people, damaging residential building and causing blackouts. On 26 October, three people were killed and 29 wounded after Russian drones struck residential buildings in the city. State Emergency Services said that a 19-year-old woman along with her mother were among the dead, while seven children were among the injured, with victims having to be rescued out of the upper floors of a nine-story apartment block after a fire broke out in the building. November 2025 attack In November 2025, state emergency services said that two people had been killed and 38 wounded in a Russian overnight attack, which also cut power to half the city, leaving at least 500,000 people without electricity. January 2026 strikes On 5 January 2026, authorities said Russia had struck a private medical facility in Kyiv, killing one patient and wounding three others, as well as causing night-time evacuations in freezing temperatures. The same air attack also killed a man in his 70's in Fastiv. On 8 January, four people were killed and 25 injured in Kyiv as Russia launched a massive overnight strike across the country, including a oreshnik ballistic missile, which according to Ukrainian authorities had struck Lviv. April 2026 strikes On 3 April 2026, Mykola Kalashnyk, the head of the regional military administration, said that one person had been killed and at least eight wounded in Russian strikes on Bucha, Fastiv and Obukhiv. A veterinary clinic close to Kyiv was also struck, killing around 20 animals. On 16 April, Klitschko said that a Russian drone and missile attack resulted in the deaths of two people in Kyiv, a 12-year old boy and a 35-year old woman, with at least 10 people being wounded. Bombing of Borodianka As Russian forces fought in and near Kyiv, Borodianka, which is on a strategically important road, was targeted by numerous Russian airstrikes. Most of the buildings in the town were destroyed, including almost all of its main street. Russian bombs struck the centers of buildings and caused them to collapse while the frames remained standing. Some residents hid in caves for 38 days. Only a few hundred residents remained in Borodianka by the time the Russians withdrew, with roughly 90% of residents having fled, Agence France-Presse arrived in Borodianka on 5 April. The AFP did not see any bodies, but reported widespread destruction, and that some homes "simply no longer existed". The human death toll remained unclear: one resident reported that he knew of at least five civilians killed, but that others were beneath the rubble and that no one had yet attempted to extricate them. The Ukrainian artillery was firing mortar rounds from a position about away. The Russians fired explosive projectiles into the area, with projectiles hitting the intersection or the surrounding area every 10 minutes, According to Human Rights Watch, it is possible that the projectiles were "observed" by the Russians, who would then know where they were landing and could easily have adjusted the aim away from the intersection. Instead they engaged in prolonged shelling of the intersection being used by civilians, which indicates "potential recklessness or deliberateness" on their part. The repeated nature of the attacks suggests that Russian forces "violated their obligations under international humanitarian law not to conduct indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks that harm civilians, and failed to take all feasible measures to avoid civilian casualties". The spokesperson for the Ukrainian Ground Forces stated that Ukraine's military does not use shells with fléchettes. According to Oleg Tkalenko, deputy chief prosecutor of the Kyiv Oblast, forensic experts found fragments of cluster munitions in bodies from mass graves in Bucha after the retreat of Russian troops, the exact number of civilians killed specifically due to the use of cluster munitions in the village was unknown, but at least 8 out of about 500 of those found were reportedly killed by their use, The Guardian later confirmed the use of RBK-500 cluster munitions with PTAB-submunitions and cluster missiles fired by the BM-30 Smerch in Bucha. The mayor of the city, Anatoly Fedoruk, stated that "Bucha was turned into a Chechen safari, where land mines were used against civilians". Cluster munition fragments were also found in the nearby city of Hostomel, many of them in animal carcasses. ==Khmelnytskyi Oblast==

On 9 July 2025, Ukrainian officials said one civilian in Khmelnytskyi suffered fatal injuries from the falling debris of a Shahed drone. Ukraine's Air Force said that it was part of an aerial assault consisting of 728 drones and 13 missiles, the largest drone attack launched in the war up to that date. It was launched hours after US President Trump pledged more military support for Ukraine and criticized Putin over peace talks. ==Luhansk Oblast==

Bilohorivka school bombing On 7 May 2022, Russian forces bombed a school in Bilohorivka where about ninety people were seeking shelter from the ongoing fighting during the Battle of Sievierodonetsk. The building caught on fire and trapped large numbers of people inside. At least 30 people were rescued. Two people were confirmed to have been killed, but Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai said that the 60 remaining people were believed to have been killed. The attack was condemned by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who said he was "appalled" by the attack, he also reminded that "civilians and civilian infrastructure must always be spared in times of war". Liz Truss, the British foreign secretary, said that she was "horrified" and described the attack as constituting war crimes. Stara Krasnianka care home attack On 7 March 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces set up a firing position at a care house in the village of Stara Krasnianka, near Kreminna, Luhansk Oblast, due to house's strategic location, with the evacuation reportedly impossible due to mining. On 9 March, the Ukrainian forces based at the care house engaged in a first exchange of fire with Russian affiliated armed groups without casualties among the civilian residents. On 11 March 2022 pro-Russian separatist forces attacked the care house with heavy weapons while 71 patients with disabilities and 15 members of staff were still inside. A fire broke out and approximately fifty people died. A group of residents fled the house and ran into the forest, until they were met five kilometers away by Russian affiliated armed groups, who provided them with assistance. On 29 June, a report of the OHCHR which didn't find "that Russia committed any war crimes". It doesn't say that Ukraine used human shields but "only expressed concern about allegations of this occurring". The report found that Ukrainian forces occupied the building before the attack, thus care home patients were not the intendent target. == Bombing of Lviv ==

On 6 July 2023, Russian forces launched ten Kalibr cruise missiles at Lviv, in western Ukraine. One of the guided missiles hit an apartment block in a residential area, killing ten civilians, wounding almost fifty, and causing widespread damage. Most of the other missiles were shot down, but two struck Ukrainian military targets nearby. Human Rights Watch said the attack should be investigated as a war crime. On 4 September 2024, Russian air attacks struck the historic centre of Lviv, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, killing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure and buildings. Lviv mayor Andryi Sadovyi reported that seven people were killed, including four members of the same family, with a mother and her three children being killed in the attack, leaving only the father alive. 66 people required medical assistance, including 10 children. Local authorities said the attack damaged about 50 civilian objects, including homes, medical facilities and architectural landmarks. On 21 August 2025, one person was killed and three were injured by Russian drone and missile strikes that damaged more than 20 civilian buildings, including a nursery and residential homes. On 5 October 2025, officials said that the largest attack on the Lviv region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion had taken place overnight by Russian drones and missiles. According to Lviv's regional head Maksym Kozytskyi, it involved around 163 missiles and drones, targeting civilian infrastructure like residential buildings and hospitals. The attack killed a 15-year old-girl, as well as three of her family members in the village of Lapaivka, injuring three more people. On 24 March 2026, officials said that at least 13 people had been injured in a Russian daytime drone attack on the city which damaged a residential building close to the 17th century St. Andrew's Church, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. == Bombing of Mykolaiv ==

Cluster munitions were repeatedly used also on Mykolaiv during separate attacks on 7, 11 and 13 March 2022, causing civilian casualties and extensive destruction of non-military objects. On the following day, a Russian rocket strike hit an 5-story residential building, killing at least 8 people and injuring 6. On 15 July, the two largest universities of the city were struck by missiles: Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding and the Mykolaiv National University. On 29 July, Russian forces bombed a bus stop. 5 were killed and 7 were injured. ==Odesa Oblast==

Bombing of Odesa from a Russian missile strike on 23 July 2023 On 3 March 2022, the nearby villages of Zatoka and Bilenke were shelled, killing at least one civilian in Bilenke. On 23 April, a Russian missile strike hit two residential buildings. killing eight civilians and wounding 18 or 20, according to Ukraine. One missile that struck a residential building killed a three-month old baby, the mother, and the baby's maternal grandmother. On 9 May, Russia fired three Kinzhal missiles to Odesa Oblast. At that time, President of the European Council Charles Michel and Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal were in Odesa and had to hide in a bomb shelter. In the evening of the same day, Russian troops fired rockets at three warehouses in Odesa and a shopping centre in the village of Fontanka near the city, One person was killed and two were injured in the warehouses. Three people were also injured in the mall. On 18 November 2024, Russia struck residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Odesa, resulting in 10 deaths and 39 injuries, including a child, according to the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration. On 10 June 2025, Russian drones struck medical facilities, including a maternity ward, as well as residential buildings, with officials saying the attacks resulted in two people dying and 13 being injured. On 22 July 2025, Odesa was targeted by more than 10 drones according to the Southern Air Command. The attack resulted in damaged civilian infrastructure, and one woman sustaining a head injury, with local emergency services saying she had been hospitalized. and after fired three Kh-22s, supersonic anti-ship missiles designed for use against aircraft carriers, into a 9-store apartment building and a recreational center in the settlement of Serhiivka, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast. A missile hit the apartment, and one section of the building was completely destroyed. The fire also spread from the apartment building to an attached store. at least 16 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the residential building. Two missiles hit the recreational center, killing at least 5 (including a 12-year-old boy). 38 more were also wounded, including 6 children. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy accused Russia of having committed "an act of conscious, deliberately targeted Russian terror – and not some kind of mistake". He noted that as in the recent Kremenchuk shopping mall attack, the Russian army "used unnecessarily powerful weapons to strike a civilian object". A spokesman of the Russian Presidency, Dmitry Peskov, denied that Russia was attacking civilian objects in Ukraine and said that the targeted buildings were used for military purposes. Official representative of Germany described the missile strike as an "inhumane and cynical" war crime. December 2025 attacks On 18 December 2025, the Head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, said that a Russian drone struck a civilian car that was driving across a bridge in Odesa, the driver of the car was killed while her three children that were in the car were injured. Kiper called the attack a ″cynical war crime″. On 19 December, a Russian ballistic missile attack on port infrastructure killed at least eight people and wounded 27. The port was struck again the next day, and Ukrainian officials said that the bombardment was part of a Russian campaign against Odesa's civilian infrastructure amid freezing winter temperatures. January 2026 attacks On 27 January 2026, officials said that a Russian drone attack in Odesa had killed at least three people and wounded 23, with a pregnant woman and two children among the injured. The drones hit apartment blocks and also targeted the power grid with the coldest winter in years ongoing. February 2026 attacks On the eve of 23 February 2026, the fourth anniversary of the war, Russian forces launched a wave of missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, killing four people, including two civilians in Odesa. Governor Oleh Kiper announced via Telegram that the drone attack damaged production and warehouse facilities, administrative buildings, car dealership premises and vehicles. April 2026 attacks On 6 April 2026, regional governor Kiper said that a Russian drone attack striking residential buildings, energy infrastructure, and a kindergarten resulted in the deaths of three people, including a mother and her two-year-old daughter, also injuring 16 people, including a pregnant woman and two children. On 13–14 April 2026, Izmail port in Southern Odesa was attacked by Russian drones, striking two foreign civilian vessels. According to Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba, a Panama-flagged vessel was damaged, along with local infrastructure and equipment. In a separate strike, the country's Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories reported that a Liberian-flagged civilian merchant vessel on its way to the port of Chornomorsk was hit, resulting in a fire. Named Lady Maris by the Ukrainian navy, the vessel was travelling through the maritime corridor to load corn. The fire was immediately extinguished by its crew and the vessel reached a port safely. In other parts of the region, governor Oleh Kiper reported that there were also strikes where a car repair shop was destroyed, triggering a fire that consumed two passenger buses and seven cars. Meanwhile, six private buildings suffered damage to their roofs ⁠and an ambulance was also harmed. Additionally, regional prosecutors later stated that a 51-year-old man was hospitalized due to the attack. == Poltava Oblast ==

Kremenchuk shopping mall attack On 27 June 2022, the Russian Armed Forces fired two Kh-22 anti-ship missiles into central Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, hitting the Amstor shopping mall. A fire broke out, and, according to Dmytro Lunin, Governor of Poltava Oblast, the attack killed at least 20 people and injured at least 56. 36 people were also initially reported missing. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the attack was carried out by Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers that took off from the Shaykovka air base in the Kaluga Oblast. The missiles were launched over the territory of the Kursk Oblast. The area of the resulting fire was more than and up to 115 firefighters and 20 fire-fighting appliances were involved in extinguishing it. Pro-Russian Telegram channels have spread multiple conflicting theories about the missile strike, including the claim that the missile was aimed at a car factory near the mall, that the mall was being used as a military equipment warehouse, or as a base of the Territorial Defense Forces, and that the missile strike is a Ukrainian provocation involving the use of "canned bodies". On the day after the attack, Russian authorities and state-controlled media issued a number of contradictory statements about the attack, including claims that the attack was "fake" and that the Ukrainian army had bombed the mall themselves. The claims that the shopping mall was "non-functional" have been debunked by several organizations. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, there were more than 1,000 people inside the mall when the strike occurred, The non-profit online journalism collective Bellingcat used receipts from recent purchases at the mall to prove that the mall had been open prior to the attack. Per reports from independent military experts and researchers with Molfar, a global open sourced intelligence community, the factory and mall were too far apart from one another to cause any fires or explosions. The leaders of the G7 nations, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba and Mayor described the attack as "war crimes", "crimes against humanity" and "indiscriminate attacks", as well claiming that the attack was intentional and that there were "no close military targets" February 2025 Poltava missile strike On 1 February 2025, Russia struck a residential building in Poltava, which emergency services said killed 14 people, including two children. == Rivne missile strikes ==

On 14 March 2022, Russian troops carried out two airstrikes against the Rivnenska TV Tower, as a result of which 21 people were killed and 9 were injured. Rockets hit the television tower and administrative buildings nearby. On 25 June, a rocket attack was carried out on civilian infrastructure in the city of Sarny. At least four people were killed and seven others were injured. On the morning of 22 October 2022, Russian troops launched a missile attack on energy infrastructure, as a result of the attack, electric substations were damaged. There were no casualties. == Sumy Oblast ==

Okhtyrka school bombing On 25 February 2022, Russian cluster bombs from a 220 mm BM-27 Uragan rocket hit a preschool in Okhtyrka used as a civilian bomb shelter, killing three people including a child. UAV film showed four hits on the roof of the preschool, three on the ground next to the school, two injured or dead civilians, and pools of blood. Amnesty International analysed 65 photos and videos of the event and interviewed local residents. Bellingcat stated that remains of the 9M27K rocket were found 200 metres east of the kindergarten. Russian forces were located west of Okhtyrka. Amnesty described the rocket type as "unguided and notoriously inaccurate", and described the attack as potentially a war crime that should be investigated. Under the procedural guidance of the Sumy District Prosecutor's Office, criminal proceedings have been instituted for violating the laws and customs of war. On 19 September 2024, a Russian guided aerial bomb struck a five-story nursing home for the elderly in Sumy, killing at least one and injuring 12, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. The oblast had been hit regularly by Russian shelling and airstrikes since the beginning of the invasion in 2022, but Ukraine's offensive into the Kursk Oblast brought the front line closer and led to an increase in attacks by Russia. The energy infrastructure in particular had been badly damaged in Sumy, as part of a broader Russian campaign to degrade Ukraine's power plants and make it more difficult for utilities to provide basic services. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission said in a September 2024 report that large-scale Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure ″have inflicted extensive harm and hardship on the country's civilian population, with potentially devastating consequences as winter approaches″. The method of hitting a target once and then striking the same target again as first responders arrive is known as a "double tap." Russia has been accused of carrying out strikes of this type during its invasion of Ukraine. On 18 November 2024, a Russian strike devastated a residential building in Sumy, with 11 deaths, including two children, and 89 wounded reported by Ukraine's Emergencies Ministry. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko also said the attack left Sumy's administrative center without power. Killing of couple fleeing village On 27 January 2025, a couple was killed by Russian forces as they were trying to evacuate from a Krasnopillia village in Sumy. According to regional head Oleh Hryhorov, the man was trying to pull his injured wife on a sled towards a safer area, before a drone first struck and killed his injured wife and a second FPV killed the man. == Uman apartment block strike ==

On 28 April 2023, Russian forces launched 23 cruise missiles and two suicide drones at targets across Ukraine. Two missiles hit an apartment block in Uman, killing 23 people, including four children. Nine other residential buildings were damaged in the city. Shortly after, the Russian Defense Ministry posted a photo of a missile launch on its Telegram channel with the caption "Right on target". The message outraged Ukrainians, who saw it as gloating over the casualties. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had targeted Ukrainian army reserve units with the strikes. Power grid operator Ukrenergo said the missile barrage did not damage the country's energy infrastructure. == Vinnytsia missile strike ==

At about 10:10 AM on 14 July 2022, an air raid alarm sounded in the city. At approximately 10:42 local residents reported three explosions in the city. Before that, local residents noticed a missile flying over Bershad city and Vinnytsia. According to Ukrainian authorities, the Russian Naval Forces fired five Kalibr cruise missiles from a submarine in the Black Sea. Ukraine claims that two of the missiles were shot down. One of the missiles reportedly hit the , a Soviet-era concert hall. But, according to Ukrainian officials, two missiles also struck civilian buildings, including a medical center, offices, stores and residential buildings in the center of the city. The attacks killed at least 28 people (including three children), and injured at least 202 others. Local officials pointed out that Kalibr missiles are high-precision which indicates that the Russians purposefully targeted civilians. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel: "Vinnytsia. Missile strikes in the city centre. There are wounded and killed, among them a little child. Every day, Russia destroys the civilian population, kills Ukrainian children, directs rockets at civilian objects. Where there is nothing military. What is this if not an open terrorist attack? Inhuman. Country of killers. A country of terrorists". The strike has also been labeled as a war crime by Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky. Among the dead were allegedly three officers of the Air Force of Ukraine. The missile strike occurred during a conference in The Hague on holding Russia accountable for war crimes. The ambassador of Moldova to Ukraine, Valeriu Chiveri, condemned the attack on Vinnytsia, referring to attacks on civilian targets in Ukrainian cities away from the frontlines as crimes against humanity. He also mentioned the European Union's decision to grant candidate status to both Moldova and Ukraine and talked about the need for both countries to work together. == Zaporizhzhia Oblast ==

Bombing of Zaporizhzhia One civilian was killed and two others injured when five Russian shells were fired at Zaporizhzhia at 7.15pm on 12 August 2022. Further city infrastructure in the Shevchenkivskyi District was also damaged in the shelling. During the night of 19 September 2022, Zaporizhzhia was hit by eight Russian rockets in its industrial and residential areas. Followed by another rocket attack in the morning, striking the regional center near the Dnieper river. Two days later the city was again hit by two Russian rockets during the night, followed by another five rockets attacks in the daytime. The regional center was hit an additional two times while other infrastructure and residential houses were damaged, two of the projectiles landed in a field on the outskirts of the city. The attack wounded three civilians. At 5.08am on 6 October 2022, seven Russian rockets were fired towards the city center of Zaporizhzhia. Several residential buildings were destroyed and fires broke out due to the attack, killing 17 civilians and injuring 12 more. Zaporizhzhia was attacked once more during the night of 7 October, but this time by Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones used by the Russian forces. The attack resulted in the deaths of 12 civilians with a further 13 injured and 15 missing. Around 3am on 9 October 2022, 12 Russian tactical missiles were launched against civilian infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia. Most missiles hit both high-rise buildings and residential houses, with a nine-story building being partially destroyed after the attack. A further five high-rise buildings, 20 residential houses and four schools were damaged alongside 20 cars. A total of 13 civilians were killed in the attack, while 89 more were injured. The following day at 1.45am, about seven Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles struck the city resulting in the deaths of eight civilians. On 23 November, Russian missile strikes destroyed a maternity ward in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in the town of Vilnyansk, killing a newborn baby. On 10 October 2022, at 1.45am, about seven Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles struck the city resulting in the deaths of eight civilians. 5 people were killed and 8 were injured in that shelling. On 11 November 2024, an overnight glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia damaged a dormitory and partially destroyed a two-story apartment building. Ukraine's police said that one person was killed and 21 injured, including a four year old. On 6 December 2024, a car shop in Zaporizhzhia was struck by Russia, regional officials said that 10 people were killed and 24 wounded, including two children. On 8 January 2025, Russian troops launched glide bombs at Zaporizhzhia in the afternoon, with at least two bombs striking residential buildings according to the regional governor Ivan Fedorov. The following day, the death toll was 13 people and the amount of injured around 113. On 5 October 2025, Fedorov said one person had been killed and 10 wounded by overnight Russian attacks that also left more than 73,000 people without power after a power plant was struck. and injuring around 88. People in cars had gathered in a logistic hub to register for entering Russian-occupied territories in the south, such as the cities of Mariupol and Melitopol, and they were planning either to return home or to meet relatives and take them back to government-controlled territory. According to a spokesperson for the local governor's office, the attack on civilians was deliberate as no military objective was placed near the site. It occurred hours before Russia formally annexed four oblasts of Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia apartment block strike On 9 October 2022, 3 a.m. (UTC+3:00), six missiles were launched at a residential area in Zaporizhzhia, destroying an apartment building and damaging 70 other buildings. The attack resulted in the deaths of 13 people, including a child. Another 89 were injured, 11 of whom are children. The airstrike took place the day after an explosion damaged large parts of the Crimean Bridge, which Russian president Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of carrying out, and called it an "act of terrorism". Orikhiv aid center bombing On 9 July 2023, a Russian guided bomb struck a school being used to distribute humanitarian aid in the town of Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Seven people were killed and eleven wounded. The General Prosecutor's office said the attack was being investigated as a war crime. Malokaterynivka strike near children's playground On 21 August 2024, a 14-year-old boy died following a Russian munition hitting a kiosk a few meters away from a children's playground in Malokaterynivka, southern Zaporizhzhia. The Ukrainian police stated that four children ranging in age from 11 to 17 had been injured in the attack. Bilenke prison bombing On 28 July 2025, Ukraine's Penitentiary Service said that Russian strikes targeted the Bilenke penitentiary, killing at least 17 and wounding 82. Buildings within the penitentiary were destroyed and adjacent private homes were damaged in the attack. == Zakarpattia Oblast ==

On 21 August 2025, Ukrainian officials said that 15 people were injured when Russian cruise missiles struck an American factory in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, producing household goods. == Bombing of Zhytomyr ==

city, Zhytomyr Oblast, after a Russian airstrike on 8 March 2022. On 1 March 2022, late in the evening, Russian troops hit a residential sector of the city. About 10 residential buildings on Shukhevych street and around the city hospital were damaged. A few bombs were dropped on the city. As a result, at least two Ukrainian civilians were killed and three were injured. On 2 March, shells hit the regional perinatal center and some private houses. On 4 March, rockets hit the 25th Zhytomyr school destroying half of the school. On 8 March, in an air assault, a dormitory was hit. On 9 March, the outskirts of the city (Ozerne district) came under fire. == Ternopil Oblast ==