RUSSIA is firing drones packed with shrapnel at Ukraine to kill and maim civilians — and wants to launch 1,000 every day. President Vladimir Putin has ordered even bigger and more deadly swarms of

Civilian casualties and violations in Ukraine have significantly escalated in recent months, including a sharp rise in often deadly drone attacks, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.

Intensified Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities drove civilian casualties to a three-year high in June, the United Nations said

UN agencies on Thursday warned of devastating recent attacks across Ukraine due to Russian strikes, record civilian casualties recorded last month – and growing deprivation facing children under fire across the country.

In addition to the back-to-back, mammoth overnight strikes, other Russian attacks killed at least 21 civilians across Ukraine on July 7-10. In eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, Russian artillery shelling and drone attacks resulted in 15 civilians deaths,

When Ukraine turned a corner of Russia’s Kursk region into a battlefield, it set in motion some of the war’s fiercest fighting. Our photographer documented the aftermath.

The US has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after Washington halted some shipments of critical arms last week.

The mission reported a total of 6,754 civilian casualties in the first half of 2025, a 54% increase compared to the 4,381 documented during the same period in 2024. Over the past six months, civilian deaths rose by 17%,