Periodic reports on the human rights situation in Ukraine

From 1 June to 30 November 2025, OHCHR recorded a significant escalation in hostilities across Ukraine, resulting in increased civilian harm. Civilian casualties surged in both frontline and urban areas, with July 2025 marking the highest monthly toll since April 2022.

Conflict-related violence killed 968 civilians and injured 4,807 between 1 December 2024 and 31 May 2025, a 37 per cent increase compared with the same period last year.

This 41st report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 1 September to 30 November 2024.

This fortieth periodic report by OHCHR describes key human rights developments in Ukraine from 1 June to 31 August 2024. In addition, this report presents OHCHR assessment of the overall scope and scale of torture and ill-treatment experienced by prisoners of war since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian armed forces on 24 February 2022.