This report was prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) through the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/53/L.1 on cooperation with and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights.
This thirty-sixth report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 1 February 2023 to 31 July 2023. It is based on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).
The present report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 77/229, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its seventy-eighth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the resolution, including options and recommendations to improve its implementation.
From 24 February 2022, which marked the start of the large-scale armed attack by the Russian Federation, to 30 June 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 25,170 civilian casualties in 1,504 settlements of Ukraine, including 9,177 killed and 15,993 injured. Of those casualties, among adults whose sex was known, men comprised 61 per cent and women comprised 39 per cent. Of those casualties among children whose sex was known, boys comprised 57.2 per cent, and girls comprised 42.8 per cent.