Region-Specific Methodology

This table lists each country covered by ACLED data, and the date when coverage began.

Coding decisions on state forces, fatality counts, and more Background Prior to the invasion, trench warfare between the Ukrainian armed forces and Russian-led separatists was limited to parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (also collectively known as the Donbas) after a hot war in the wake of the Euromaidan protest movement in Ukraine in 2013-14, which Russia had framed as a Western-inspired coup d’état and used as a pretext to annex Crimea in March 2014.…

Scope and coverage in ACLED data About ACLED & Background on US Coverage What information is captured? ACLED systematically collects the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all political violence and demonstration events in the US using a methodology consistent with our global coverage of conflict and disorder around the world.…