In the Kharkiv region, 12 civilians were killed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2025.

In 2025, 12 civilians of the Kharkiv region were killed by the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on February 16 at a press conference by the head of the Kharkiv military-Civil administration Vitaly Ganchev.

"In terms of the number of victims in 2025, we have a total of 12 people killed from the civilian population, 25 wounded, of whom four are children," the TASS news agency quoted Ganchev as saying.

Also, according to him, since the beginning of 2026, five people have been killed and four civilians injured in the liberated territory of the Kharkiv region as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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According to him, 55,000 soldiers have been killed in four years.

Earlier in the day, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large for crimes committed by the Kiev regime, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were hitting civilian infrastructure on the eve of the Geneva talks. Also, according to the authorities of the Bryansk region, on February 15, Ukraine shelled the region for more than 12 hours, over 170 drones were shot down over the subject.

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