The event got here as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a bunch of European leaders arrived in Washington on Monday to fulfill President Donald Trump, who held talks on a attainable peace deal to finish the struggle with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Alaska final Friday.
Responding to questions on the common each day briefing in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric stated that the Secretary-General António Guterres was watching occasions within the US capital carefully.
“We stay deeply involved over the persevering with lethal Russian assaults that we now have seen throughout Ukraine. The Secretary-Basic reiterates his name for a simply, complete and sustainable peace in Ukraine, one which totally upholds Ukraine’s sovereignty independence, territorial integrity, inside it’s internationally recognised borders consistent with the UN Charter, worldwide legislation and related UN resolutions,” he stated.
“We after all should stand able to help any significant efforts in the direction of that finish.”
UNICEF requires finish to assaults
“Extra younger lives misplaced and devastated in brutal assaults in Ukraine,” UN youngsters’s company, UNICEF, stated in a web-based submit condemning the assaults. “Finish assaults on populated areas. Defend youngsters.”
Footage launched by the Ukrainian authorities confirmed an house advanced in Kharkiv with an enormous gap within the shattered roof and higher flooring, the place fires had been extinguished.
Kharkiv is situated within the northeast of the nation and simply 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) from the Russian border. Ukraine’s second metropolis has suffered heavy destruction and repeated shelling since Russia’s full-scale invasion started on 24 February 2022.
In the meantime, a separate Russian assault on the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia left three useless and roughly 20 injured, in accordance with the Ukrainian authorities, who stated that they had shot down 88 drones and missiles launched in a single day.
A latest replace from UN human rights displays in Ukraine famous that July noticed the very best variety of civilian casualties within the nation since Might 2022, with 286 killed and 1,388 injured.
“Aerial bombs prompted the most important rise [and] short-range drones made up 24 per cent of casualties,” stated the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).
Russian troops’ push
The rise within the variety of civilian casualties between June and July 2025 primarily befell in areas managed by the Ukrainian Authorities alongside frontlines. This indicated the “intensive navy efforts by Russian armed forces to seize territory”, the UN displays defined.
And though long-range missile strikes and different munitions prompted about 20 per cent fewer casualties in July in contrast with June, they have been chargeable for virtually 40 per cent of all non-combatant deaths and accidents, together with within the cities of Dnipro, Kharkiv and Kyiv.
Quick-range drones have been the second main reason for civilian casualties, accounting for almost one in 4 dying and accidents (64 killed and 337 injured), stated HRMMU.
As in June, almost all civilian casualties (98 per cent) occurred in areas managed by the Ukrainian authorities. Civilian casualties have been recorded throughout 18 areas of Ukraine and town of Kyiv.
In villages and cities close to the frontline, civilians are discovering it more and more troublesome to entry primary providers.
Older individuals more and more lower off
“In lots of frontline villages, older individuals and folks with disabilities reside with out drugs, electrical energy, and even clear water,” stated Danielle Bell, Head of HRMMU. “Intensifying short-range drone assaults and the approaching winter are compounding concern and hardship, disproportionately affecting these most weak.”
With the frontline edging nearer, many cities and villages, similar to Bilozerske and Dobropillia in Donetsk area, have skilled intense assaults over the previous two weeks. In Bilozerske, the native hospital closed down final week, together with pharmacies and banks. Solely non-potable water is offered, and the electrical energy provide is continuously interrupted.
Most of these remaining in frontline villages are older individuals who face disproportionately excessive dangers of being killed or injured.
HRMMU documented that individuals aged 60 years and above accounted for over 43 % of the civilians killed in frontline areas in 2025, regardless of representing solely 25 % of Ukraine’s common inhabitants.
