The Deadliest Month Since the Beginning

An update on Putin’s war, and what we’re doing about it.

The numbers came in this week, and they are worse than anything in four years.

The United Nations confirmed on July 14 that June 2026 was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022. At least 293 civilians killed. Another 1,990 injured. May had already set a four-year record. June broke it.

Since Putin launched his full-scale invasion in February 2022, the UN has verified at least 16,431 civilian deaths in Ukraine, including 803 children, with more than 48,000 injured. The UN says the real number is far higher, because it cannot count the dead in places Russia occupies, like Mariupol, where thousands are believed buried under rubble no investigator can reach.

And July is not letting up. In the first seven days of this month alone, 93 civilians were killed. On July 6, Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv overnight and killed at least 14 people in their apartment buildings. That strike came four days after another attack on the capital killed at least 30.