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Summary
• The number of civilian casualties remained high in October with 605 civilians killed or injured.
• Most civilian casualties (92 per cent) continued to occur in Government-controlled territory. The majority of civilian casualties continued to occur in areas near the frontlines by shelling and multiple-launch rocket systems.
• Numbers in October showed an 11 per cent decrease in the number of civilian casualties compared with numbers in September, continuing to show a gradual decline in 2023.
• On 5 October, Russian armed forces launched a missile against a funeral reception in Hroza, Kharkiv oblast, killing 59 civilians. The attack was the deadliest in 2023 in terms of civilian casualties and constituted 33 per cent of civilians killed in October.
Significant incidents
• On 5 October, a missile strike killed 59 civilians (36 women, 22 men and an eight-year-old boy) in the Governmentcontrolled village of Hroza in Kharkiv region.
• On 18 October, a missile strike hit a five-story residential building in Government-controlled Zaporizhzhia, killing five civilians (two couples and one man) and injured at least three.
• On 21 October, a missile strike hit a post terminal in Government-controlled village Novyi Korotych, Kharkiv region, killing eight employees (men) and injuring fourteen.