A man places a portrait on a grave during a funeral ceremony for a family of two adults and three children, local residents who were killed on Friday, February 9, at their house that burned in a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine February 12, 2024. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/ File Photo
GENEVA (Reuters) - The civilian death toll in Ukraine last month rose sharply, to 174, which was the highest level in nearly a year amid an increase in missile and bomb strikes in populated areas around Kharkiv, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
The May toll represented an increase of 31% from April and the highest since June 2023, according to data from the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Miranda Murray)
