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Ukraine Conflict Monitor

ACLED’s Ukraine Conflict Monitor provides near real-time information on the ongoing war, including an interactive map, a curated data file, and weekly situation updates. It is designed to help researchers, policymakers, media, and the wider public track key conflict developments in Ukraine.

Interactive map

This map includes political violence events in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022.

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Date and subset filters

By default, the map displays data for the most recent week. Use the date filters to change the date range in view.

Use the subset filters to analyze trends in more detail.

Changing view

By default, the map is set to event view, which uses scaled circles to show events at a given location. Click on a region in Ukraine to zoom in for a more detailed view. Hovering over a region will give a count of events within its borders.

Changing to region (oblast) view will switch the map to a choropleth, giving an overview of event density per region. This will also disable the zoom function.

Events in Russia

While in event view, use the "Events in Russia" toggle to show or hide conflict-related events in Russia. Conflict-related events are identified as follows:

  • All events with the "Battles" or "Explosions/remote violence" event type.
  • Events with the "Violence against civilians" event type, where the actor is:
    • Ukrainian or Russian military
    • Russian border guards
    • Pro-Ukrainian Russian militias

Attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure

ACLED uses four automatically generated infrastructure tags when coding events that occur in Ukraine, each covering a vital sector that focuses on civilian infrastructure: energy, health, education, and residential infrastructure.

For more information, read our methodology explainer.

Event counts and civilian fatalities

The box in the bottom right-hand corner displays event counts in total, disaggregated by event type, and filtered by date or subset according to the options already selected.

It also shows a conservative estimate of civilian fatalities, limited to events where civilians are targeted directly. Military casualties are not represented on the map as they are largely unverifiable.

For more information on how ACLED codes fatalities, read our methodology explainer.

Key events

  1. 29 Nov.

    Kyiv — A Russian bombardment of Kyiv city and region kills six civilians and injures about 50 others

  2. 1 Dec.

    Dnipropetrovsk — A Russian ballistic missile strike on Dnipro city kills four civilians and injures 45 others

  3. 3 Dec.

    Lviv — A man fatally stabs a military recruiter in Lviv city during a paper check

Key trends

  • Russian forces seized two settlements southeast of Myrnohrad in the Donetsk region and five settlements north and east of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region. Reports also suggest that they may have occupied Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region.
  • Russian forces launched at least 40 long-range missile and drone attacks, of which over half were on Kyiv city and the surrounding region, as well as the Odesa region.
  • Russian strikes killed at least 38 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Sumy regions, as well as Kyiv city and region. A Ukrainian drone strike killed two civilians in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region.

Spotlight: Russia claims sweeping gains amid a renewed US push for a ceasefire

On 1 December, Russian forces claimed to have fully occupied Pokrovsk and Vovchansk in the Donetsk and Kharkiv region, respectively,1 less than two weeks after also claiming to have seized Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region.2 The three towns have been in Russia’s crosshairs for the past two years. Although Ukrainian forces may no longer control Vovchansk, the battles for Pokrovsk and Kupiansk continue. The two cities are likely launchpads of the looming Russian offensive on the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, which together make up the bulk of the region still under Ukraine’s control. Meanwhile, Vovchansk — a now-destroyed town on the border with Russia — had mired Russian forces in urban fighting after their reinvasion of the northern Kharkiv region in May 2024. The claims of major territorial gains come in the wake of yet another United States-led push to end the war, with Russia’s key demand centering on Ukraine ceding the entire Donetsk region to Russia in addition to areas it already holds.3 

ACLED data indicate that the pace of Russian occupation of Ukraine has accelerated in the first 11 months of 2025, with Russian forces claiming over 190 distinct settlements — about 40% more than in the same period of 2024. Despite heavy emphasis on the region, the number of Donetsk settlements captured in 2025 is only slightly higher than in 2024. Instead, the steep increase in the overall number is mostly due to the more than 50 settlements that Russian forces seized in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, and Sumy regions. The loss of ground in the latter region is the side effect of Ukrainian forces’ defeat in Russia’s Kursk region across the border in March, while gains in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions have come on the back of a shortage of Ukrainian infantry to hold positions west of Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region.4 Russia has been on the offensive since October 2023 and has secured incremental gains despite heavy losses.5 

Explore the ACLED Conflict Exposure Calculator to assess the numbers of people affected by armed violence, disaggregated by locations, time period, and actors involved.

Download Ukraine data

Data on Ukraine

This file contains all political violence events, demonstration events, and strategic developments recorded in Ukraine and the Black Sea from 2020-present.

Situation updates

Recent analysis

For additional information on the conflict in Ukraine, check our analysis of political violence trends from the start of ACLED coverage in 2018.

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Footnotes

  1. 1

    Andrew Osborn, “Russia says before talks with US it has fully captured city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine denies it,” Reuters, 2 December 2025

  2. 2

    Dmitry Antonov and Ksenia Orlova, “Russian forces take Ukraine’s Kupiansk, top military official says, Ukraine denies it,” Reuters, 21 November 2025

  3. 3

    Barak Ravid, “U.S. pushes Zelensky for swift yes on peace plan: Ukrainian officials,” Axios, 8 December 2025

  4. 4

    X @KofmanMichael, 14 November 2025

  5. 5

    The Economist, “As America pushes peace, Russia’s battlefield advances remain slow,” 2 December 2025

Country
Ukraine
Region
Europe and Central Asia
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