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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. 1 Feb.

    Dnipropetrovsk — Russian drone strikes kill 12 miners on a bus in Ternivka

  2. 4 Feb.

    Donetsk — Russian cluster munitions kill seven civilians and injure 17 others in Druzhkivka

  3. 6 Feb.

    Moscow — A suspected SBU-recruited Ukrainian shoots and critically injures a GRU lieutenant general

Key trends

  • Russian forces captured three settlements along the border with Ukraine, two in the Kharkiv region and another in the Sumy region.
  • Russian forces also claimed to have seized a settlement west of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region, and another village south of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
  • Russian forces launched at least 32 long-range missile and drone attacks, mostly concentrated on the Dnipropetrovsk region and the Kyiv region and city.
  • Russian strikes killed at least 48 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, and Sumy regions. Ukrainian drones and shelling reportedly killed 12 civilians in the Russian-controlled parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions. 

Spotlight: Russia sticks to energy ceasefire for nearly three days, then resumes massive strikes in Ukraine

After the United States-mediated ceasefire on strikes targeting energy infrastructure raised expectations that pressure would be eased on freezing civilians in all of Ukraine and in Russia’s border regions, Russia resumed massive strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure after a lull between 30 January and 1 February.

Following a request extended by US President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin, ACLED data shows that Russian forces paused their targeted drone and missile strikes at Ukraine’s power plants, substations, thermal power plants, and other gas infrastructure over the given weekend. Conforming to the agreed ceasefire, Ukraine acknowledged the importance of such a measure in building trust in the peace negotiations, while reporting Russian strikes on energy and railway infrastructure in the frontline regions,1 which have commonly been targeted to disrupt army logistics. 

On 1 February, however, two Russian Shahed-type drones hit a bus carrying coal miners leaving their shift in Ternivka, killing at least 12 miners and injuring several others. This marked a return to Russia’s deliberate targeting of non-combatants and, with it, Ukraine’s energy sector. The massive Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv on 2 and 3 February caused more damage to infrastructure by destroying the Darnytska thermal-electrical power plant. The plant provides heating for over 1,100 apartment buildings in the Ukrainian capital and is unlikely to be repaired within the next two months,2 when the heating season is likely to end. Consequent Russian strikes affected power plants and energy transmission in the cities of Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odesa, Zaporizhia, and Kherson, as well as in the Vinnytsia region. Seemingly in response, Ukrainian forces struck substations in Belgorod and its surroundings, as well as in the Bryansk region, triggering blackouts and disrupting utilities.

The ceasefire has done little to shift Russian tactics and follows the poor performance of previous ceasefires between Russia and Ukraine on the battlefield and energy infrastructure. Despite this and the seemingly irreconcilable negotiating positions of Ukraine and Russia, the US continues to push for a peace deal by the summer of 2026.3

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.

Past situation updates

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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

    Anna Pruchnicka, Olena Harmash, and Mykhailo Moskalenko, “Zelenskiy says Russia largely observing energy ceasefire ahead of peace talks,” Reuters, 2 February 2026

  2. 2

    Dmytro Basmat, “Kyiv power plant struck in Feb. 3 Russian attack will take ‘no less than 2 months’ to repair, Mayor Klitschko says,” The Kyiv Independent, 5 February 2026

  3. 3

    RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, “Zelenskyy Says US Wants War Ended By Summer As Russia Hits Ukraine's Power Grid,” RFE/RL, 7 February 2026

Country
Ukraine
Region
Europe and Central Asia
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