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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.

Territorial control maps

Territorial control maps from Black Bird Group, updated every week, correct as of the most recent Friday. 

Read their methodology here.

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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 Russia

All political violence events, demonstration events, and strategic developments recorded in Russia from 2020-present.

Key trends

  • Russia intensified its strikes on civilians and critical infrastructure over the past week, with mass casualty incidents reported almost daily. Among the most deadly strikes, attacks in Kharkiv on 5 October, Pryluky on 7 October, and Kramatorsk on 8 October killed six, 22, and at least 32 civilians, respectively. Repeated mass casualty incidents point to a sustained threat to civilians and increase pressure on and danger to emergency responders across the country. Ukraine’s struggle to intercept faster, jet-powered Shahed drones compounds the threat as Russia has started intensifying strikes on civilian infrastructure ahead of winter. Although Russia has deployed fewer jet-powered drones on average per night so far in October than in September, it has increasingly dispersed them in smaller groups across the country, stretching Ukraine’s air defence and contributing to mass casualty incidents in multiple regions.  
  • In Russia, Ukraine has expanded its strike campaign against Yandex data centers that host services ranging from online searches to transportation, entertainment, cloud services, and AI. A drone strike on 8 October disabled the company’s data center in Sasovo, while a subsequent attack on its largest facility in Kaluga disrupted services. The strikes were likely intended to counter Russia’s attack on Ukrainian data centers, weaken Russia’s technological capabilities, and increase economic pressure on Russia. Yandex was forced to operate its cloud infrastructure in emergency mode, indicating the scale of the damage. The disruption could have long-term consequences, as replacing high-tech hardware and restoring full capacity may take months, if it’s even possible at all. 

Key events

  1. 6 Oct.

    Odesa – Russian drone strikes on a key transit node between Odesa and Moldova damage trucks and passenger vehicles and injure five civilians

  2. 6 Oct.

    Black Sea — Russian drone strikes hit three foreign-flagged cargo vessels, sinking one and damaging two others, and killing one crew member and injuring nine

  3. 9 Oct.

    Kaluga, Russia – Ukrainian drones strike a second Yandex data center after an earlier attack in Russia’s Ryazan region 

Past situation updates

See previous 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

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    Note: Some events may contain notes covering damage of multiple types of infrastructure, so individual events can be counted multiple times for various categories of infrastructure.