Russia, Ukraine and drones
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UN agencies on Thursday warned of devastating recent attacks across Ukraine due to Russian strikes, record civilian casualties recorded last month – and growing deprivation facing children under fire across the country.
There is too little data to generate a comparable live estimate for Ukraine. However, a catalogue of the known dead and missing from UAL osses, a website, implies that between 73,000 and 140,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the invasion began.
Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have significantly escalated in recent months, including a sharp rise in often deadly drone attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.
Intensified Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities drove civilian casualties to a three-year high in June, the United Nations said
In addition to the back-to-back, mammoth overnight strikes, other Russian attacks killed at least 21 civilians across Ukraine on July 7-10. In eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, Russian artillery shelling and drone attacks resulted in 15 civilians deaths,
Ukraine confirms strike on missile battery plant in Lipetsk During a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on July 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin said "Russia will continue to pursue its goals" in the war against Ukraine,
In a story published Jul. 10, 2025, about the Ukraine war, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the U.N. human rights mission in Ukraine said June brought the highest monthly
The US president said he will send weapons to Nato, which he said would pay and then give the weapons to Ukraine.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine claim that, as of July 7, there have been 1,027,540 Russian casualties, according to Minfin. The BBC reported in May that more than 100,000 have been killed.
In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, the SBU said it believed agents of the Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) had been behind the killing of SBU colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv on Thursday and that it had tried to detain them on Sunday.