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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. 8 Jan.

    Dnipropetrovsk — A Russian combined strike kills one civilian, injures 24, and causes power outages in Kryvyi Rih

  2. 9 Jan.

    Odesa — A Russian drone strike on two ships near Odesa port kills a Syrian crew member

  3. 9 Jan.

    Kyiv — A Russian combined drone and missile strike kills four civilians and causes widespread power outages in Kyiv city

Key trends

  • Russian forces captured a settlement in the border area of the Sumy region, as well as another north of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. In the Donetsk region, Russian troops seized a village southeast of Kramatorsk and claimed to have captured a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian forces also seized another village north of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region.  
  • Russian forces launched at least 46 long-range missile and drone attacks affecting the Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, and Poltava regions; Kyiv city and the surrounding region; and the western regions of Lviv and Khmelnytskyi.
  • Russian strikes killed at least 32 civilians in Kherson, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Zaporizhia, Odesa, and Kyiv city and region.

Spotlight: Russia signals its strike capability to the West with a dummy Oreshnik missile strike miles from the EU

In the late evening of 8 January, Russian forces fired an Oreshnik hypersonic missile at Lviv, a city in western Ukraine located approximately 60 kilometers from the Polish border. The strike represents the second time Russia has used the nuclear-capable missile in Ukraine, this time further from the frontline and closer to European Union territory.

The missile triggered the automatic shutdown of the city’s gas distribution safety system, but, contrary to initial reports, did not hit Ukraine’s underground gas reserves in the Lviv region. Russian defense officials have claimed that the missile damaged the Lviv State Aviation Repair Plant. While an unnamed Ukrainian official did acknowledge the strike on “a workshop at a state enterprise in Lviv,” they downplayed its impact as merely a result of the kinetic force of the missile’s “inert dummy warheads.”1 Military observers have agreed on the seemingly limited impact of this event but have underlined the missile’s ability to avoid most modern air defense systems through hypersonic speed, travel routes, and irregular spread of warheads before impact.2 The first documented use of the Oreshnik in Ukraine on 21 November 2024 damaged a major defense plant and a civilian care center in Dnipro city. 

The attack, which was initially claimed by the Russian Ministry of Defence as a response to the unconfirmed Ukrainian attack on the Russian president’s residence in the Valdai Hills,3 is likely a signal of readiness and strike capability to Ukraine’s allies who are negotiating financial and security guarantees, including troop deployments, to Kyiv. Together with the deployment of a nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile system to Belarus in December 2025,4 the Oreshnik missile strikes may become the Russian leadership’s most prominent means of saber-rattling to deter further Western support of Ukraine.

For more, see the ACLED 2026 Conflict Watchlist report, Exhausted Ukraine faces military and diplomatic pressure to cede the Donbas. 

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

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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.

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

    Reuters, “Russia says it hit an aircraft repair plant in Ukraine with last week's Oreshnik strike,” 12 January 2026

  2. 2

    BBC News, “‘Oreshnik’ – what is known about this missile,” 9 January 2026 (Ukrainian)

  3. 3

    The Insider, “Russia’s MoD claims Oreshnik ballistic missile strike on Lviv Region came in response to a Ukrainian ‘attack’ on Putin’s Valdai residence,” 9 January 2026

  4. 4

    Jonathan Landay, “Exclusive: Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find,” Reuters, 26 December 2025

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Ukraine
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Europe and Central Asia
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