Monitor

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.

1,770 political violence events

5% decrease compared to last week

147 incidents of violence targeting civilians

1% decrease compared to last week

At least 53 civilians killed by targeted violence

21% decrease compared to last week

Interactive map

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

More information

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.

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.

Data on attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure

This file contains events in Ukraine featuring one or more of these civilian infrastructure tags: energy, health, education, and residential infrastructure.

Key events

6 Apr.

Odesa — Russian drone strikes on Odesa city kill three, damage homes, and disrupt power for 16,700 households
6 Apr.

Krasnodar Krai, Russia — Ukrainian drones strike Novorossiysk oil terminal and hit Russian Black Sea flagship Admiral Makarov
9 Apr.

Ukraine — Ukraine recovers 1,000 soldiers’ remains in exchange for the bodies of 41 Russian soldiers

Key trends

Russian forces captured a settlement in the Sumy border region and continued pressing their offensive in the Donetsk region and along the Huliaipole axis in the Zaporizhia region.
Russian forces launched at least 30 long-range missile and drone attacks.
Russian strikes killed at least 38 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Donetsk, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Poltava, and Sumy regions. According to Russian sources, Ukrainian strikes killed 12 civilians in the Russian-controlled parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Luhansk regions.

Spotlight: Targeted drone killings highlight Russia’s use of “human safari” tactics in the Dnipropetrovsk region

Russian first-person view (FPV) drone attacks on civilian targets in the Nikopol district reached a new level of lethality in early April. Three such strikes on public spaces killed 10 and injured over 50 civilians within three days. On 4 April, a Russian FPV drone struck a civilian market in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk, killing five people and injuring 28. The following day, another FPV drone hit a civilian car in the city, killing one person and injuring another. On 7 April, Russian FPV drones hit two passenger buses in the same area — the first in central Nikopol killed four civilians and injured at least 24, and a second in the nearby Chervonohryhorivka municipality wounded five more.¹ These strikes are part of systematic Russian tactics of deliberately using FPV drones to locate and strike civilians, a practice known as the “human safari.”²

This campaign was first documented in Kherson in 2024, where Russian drone operators were reportedly trained on live civilian targets from positions near the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant.³ Since then, it has expanded into other areas of Ukraine, including Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv. The United Nations has confirmed these attacks constitute crimes against humanity and are carried out as part of a coordinated state policy.⁴ It marks the deliberate repurposing of military drone operations. Drone units trained to hit military supply routes behind enemy lines are instead being used against buses, markets, and ambulances. The pattern of attacks is aimed at restricting civilian movement and instilling psychological terror rather than achieving any military objective. As a result, civilians in affected areas have adapted by installing anti-drone netting over roads, driving without headlights at night, and keeping children indoors.⁵

Ukraine war situation update | 28 March – 3 April 2026

Russia bombs civilians in preparation for the battle for Kramatorsk and Slovyansk.

8 April 2026

Ukraine war situation update | 21 – 27 March 2026

Russia carries out one of the largest waves of strikes on large population centers in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022.

1 April 2026

Ukraine war situation update | 14 – 20 March 2026

Ukraine seeks to degrade Russia’s air defenses in one of the largest drone assaults on Moscow since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

25 March 2026

Ukraine war situation update | 7 – 13 March 2026

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Dniester Hydropower Complex pollute and endanger Moldova’s water supply.

18 March 2026

Witold Stupnicki on increased Russian “human safaris” in Ukraine

ACLED’s Senior Analyst for Europe & Central Asia Witold Stupnicki comments on new type of Russian warfare in Ukraine

15 April 2026

Witold Stupnicki on Russia’s largest drone attack on Ukraine

ACLED’s Europe and Central Asia Senior Analyst, Witold Stupnicki, comments on the intensification of Russia’s air campaign and its cross-border impact.

25 March 2026

Ukraine war: How six new trends are shaping the conflict

Relentless drone strikes on civilians and infrastructure resulting in blackouts across Ukraine, increasing Russian sabotage in Europe, and Ukraine’s long-range attacks on Russian energy characterized the war in 2025.

23 February 2026