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.

1,854 political violence events

2% increase compared to last week

148 incidents of violence targeting civilians

3% increase compared to last week

At least 66 civilians killed by targeted violence

53% increase 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

28 Mar.

Odesa — More than 60 Russian drones kill three civilians and injure 14 in Odesa city and port
1 Apr.

Cherkasy — Four civilians die after approaching a crashed Russian drone in the Zolotoniskyi district when it exploded
2 Apr.

Bashkortostan, Russia — A Ukrainian drone strike damages an oil refinery in Ufa, 2,000 km away from Ukraine

Key trends

Russian forces occupied a village northeast of Sumy in the Sumy region and another near Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region. They also claimed control over two settlements near Orikhiv and Ternuvate in the Zaporizhia region and advanced near Kostiantynivka and Lyman in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian forces reclaimed a settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk region in its counter-offensive near the administrative boundary with the Zaporizhia region.
Russian forces launched at least 57 long-range missile and drone attacks, including on the western regions of Lviv, Zakarpattia, Volyn, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi.
Russian strikes killed at least 58 civilians in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Odesa, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv regions. Ukrainian drone strikes reportedly killed four civilians in the Russian-controlled parts of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.

Spotlight: Russia prepares to capture Kramatorsk and Slovyansk with unprecedented civilian bombing

As they gradually surround and occupy the town of Kostiantynivka, Russian forces now eye the capture of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, the two fortress cities still under Ukrainian control in the Donetsk region. Russian forces are preparing the battleground for the seizure of the urban agglomeration headed by these two cities, not only through the prioritization of additional troop deployments,¹ but also by bombing and targeting civilian infrastructure and remaining civilians almost daily.

On 3 April, Russian forces launched at least five aerial bombs at the city of Kramatorsk, killing six civilians and injuring eight others, while damaging residential buildings, educational and energy infrastructure, and an ambulance near a civilian evacuation point. Earlier in the week, on 30 March, Russian aerial bombs also damaged a maternity hospital and injured at least four civilians in Slovyansk. These events underline the evergrowing threat not just to Ukrainian military logistics in the Kramatorskyi district of the Donetsk region, but also to the humanitarian hubs and civilians living in or evacuated from front line locations. In Slovyansk, the regional authorities recently began mandatory evacuations of children and their guardians from the most exposed streets of the city,² whereas authorities in Kramatorsk began the process back in October 2025.³

In comparison to the first three months of 2025, Russian targeting of civilians in the Kramatorskyi district increased almost threefold in the number of events and fatalities in 2026, as the front line was pushed closer to the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk-Kostiantynivka agglomeration. The impact on civilians was compounded by Russia’s indiscriminate and extensive use of modernized guided aerial bombs and first-person-view drones against both military and civilian targets.

Following their strategy of total destruction in front line regions to strong-arm Ukraine into ceding the Donbas region, Russian forces are seemingly doubling down on capturing territories devoid of populations and infrastructure at any cost to capture the Donetsk region by the end of 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

Ukraine war situation update | 28 February – 6 March 2026

Russian strikes on Ukrainian trains and railway infrastructure throughout the week were higher than the monthly average for the past year.

11 March 2026

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