At least 165 civilians, including 8 children, killed in Ukraine in November - Lubinets

At least 165 civilians were killed and 887 others were injured in Ukraine in November. Eight of the killed and 57 of the injured were children.

Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, said this in a post on Telegram, citing data from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).

“In total, 12,340 civilians have been killed since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Another 27,836 have sustained injuries of varying degrees,” the ombudsman said.

According to him, the HRMMU noted that while the November casualty number was lower than in October, it was significantly higher than in November 2023 (113 killed; 363 injured).

Lubinets said that 65 Ukrainian citizens were killed as a result of the use of long-range weapons (missiles and loitering munitions) by the Russians. “In the Kherson region, attacks with short-range unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) killed and injured civilians on a near-daily basis,” he added.

The HRMMU also noted that Russian armed forces resumed large-scale, coordinated attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

“The world should not just watch the statistics of victims change. The world must do everything to make terrorist Russia accountable for every ruined life! Help Ukraine, because this is how you protect yourself,” the ombudsman underscored.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the UN Human Rights Mission reacted to the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia with the use of aerial glide bombs on December 6, noting that this deadly attack highlights the risk to civilians from the use of these weapons in populated areas, raising concerns under international humanitarian law.