Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military have, many times, intentionally attacked civilian targets and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says the Russian military has caused civilians to suffer unneeded and disproportionate harm by using cluster bombs and by firing other weapons with which effect a wide area  into civilian areas, such as missiles, heavy artillery shells. As of 2025, the attacks had resulted in the UN recording the deaths of between 14,000 and estimated 40,000 innocent civilians. On 22 April 2022, the UN reported that of the 2,343 civilian injuries and deaths it had been able to document, it could confirm 92.3% of those civilians where killed by Russians.

On 5 July 2022, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, reported that most of the civilians whose injury or death because of the war that had documented by her office had been killed or injured by the Russian army's use of explosive weapons with a big area of effect in areas in which people lived, calling it "indisputable". By 30 June 2023, OHCHR assessed that 90.5% of all civilian deaths were caused by these attack, and that 84.2% of them were recorded in territory controlled by the Ukrainians. The Spanish newspaper  estimated that by March 2023 the Russians were firing at a rate of between 600,000 and 1.8 million shells per month. By February 2024, Russia had fired between 12 and 17 million artillery shells against Ukraine. By the end of 2023, Russian forces launched about 7,400 missiles and 3,900 Shahed drone strikes against Ukraine according to Ukrainian military officials.right|thumb|Aftermath of the Kramatorsk railway station attack, April 2022

Reports on the use of cluster bombs raised worries about the big number of civilian casualties and the long-lasting danger of unexploded bombs. According to the OHCHR, cluster bombs have been used by Russian armed forces and pro-Russian rebels in areas with lots of people, resulting in civilian injuries or deaths.

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