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This thematic report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) describes the human rights situation in territory of Ukraine occupied by the Russian Federation following its full-scale armed attack, including areas over which Ukraine regained control afterward. It covers the period from 24 February 2022 to 31 December 2023 and is based on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). 

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine verified that at least 502 civilians were killed or injured in Ukraine in February 2024. This number constitutes a 24 per cent decrease in comparison with January 2024, after a spike in civilian casualties documented in December 2023 and January 2024, primarily from intensified attacks by Russian armed forces with missile and loitering munitions operational at long ranges.

The report cites human rights and humanitarian law violations since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, a decade marked by systematic efforts to impose Russian rule on the peninsula.

On 24 February 2022, Russian armed forces launched a full-scale armed attack on Ukraine. In the two years since, the civilian population in Ukraine has endured immense suffering and harm. Thousands of civilians have lost their lives or sustained life-changing injuries – or have family members who have done so. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has verified that conflict-related violence in this two-year period killed more than 10,000 civilians and injured nearly 20,000. The actual numbers are likely significantly higher.

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission verified that at least 641 civilians were killed or injured in Ukraine in January 2024, continuing a trend from December 2023 of increasing civilian casualties. Verified civilian casualties in January were 37 per cent higher than in November 2023.