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CIT reported a record number of civilian deaths and injuries due to the war in Ukraine after 2022

Ukrainians bring candles, flowers, and toys to the site of a Russian strike on a multi-story building in Ternopil on November 21, 2025. Photo: Maxim Marusenko / EPA. In 2025, at least 2,919 civilians died as a result of combat operations between Russia and Ukraine, and another 17,775 people were injured. This is stated in the report of the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) project "Blood against the backdrop of negotiations: civilian casualties from shelling in 2025." Analysts note that in terms of the total number of civilian casualties from the war, 2025 became a record year for the last three years. Infographic: CIT. According to the project, among the dead were 96 children, and among the injured were 1,000 minors. In total, 2,348 people died in the unoccupied territories of Ukraine, and another 13,952 were injured. In the occupied lands, 298 people died, and 1,751 people were injured. In Russia, there were 273 deaths and 2,072 injuries. Thus, four out of five died in territories controlled by Ukraine, CIT notes. At the same time, the share of deaths in the occupied territories decreased by 6%, and in the unoccupied territories, it increased by 35%. Infographic: CIT. The largest number of civilians died as a result of a Russian attack on Ternopil on November 19 - then Russian missiles hit two apartment buildings. 38 people died. The largest number of injured occurred after the Russian missile strike on Dnipro on June 24 - then 319 people were injured, and 21 died. In the territories controlled by Ukraine, the most civilians died in the Donetsk (756 people), Kherson (359), and Kharkiv (279) regions, in the occupied territories - in the Kherson (144) and Donetsk (82) regions, in the Russian territories - in the Belgorod (134), Kursk (61), and Bryansk (24) regions. Infographic: CIT. Most often, civilians became victims of drone attacks - a total of 1376 civilians died from them during the year, and another 10,089 were injured.

Peace talks were supposed to save lives in Ukraine. Instead, last year became the war’s deadliest for civilians since 2022.

The investigative group Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) has released a report documenting civilians killed and wounded in the war between Russia and Ukraine in 2025. The summary, which tracks victims on both sides of the conflict, is CIT’s second — the first covered 2024. The report’s central finding is grim: Peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by the United States, failed to de-escalate the violence. Instead, civilian casualties surged so sharply that 2025 was the war’s deadliest year for noncombatants since 2022.