Last updated: 16 April 2025
Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, this aerial photograph shows the destruction in the village of Bohorodychne in the Donetsk region on 27 January 2024. Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images
ACLED’s Ukraine Conflict Monitor provides near real-time information on the ongoing war, including an interactive map of the latest data from the start of Russia’s invasion, 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. It is released every Wednesday, with data covering events from Saturday to Friday of the preceding week and providing updates to past events as new or better information becomes available.
Ukraine war situation update
5 – 11 April 2025
1,293 political violence events
2% decrease compared to last week
76 incidents of violence targeting civilians
5% decrease compared to last week
At least 21 fatalities from civilian targeting
56% decrease compared to last week
Key trends
- Russian forces occupied two settlements southwest of Toretsk and advanced near Velyka Novosilka, Kurakhove, and Lyman in the Donetsk region.
- In the Sumy region, Russian forces continued to gain ground, occupying at least one settlement near the border.
- ACLED records at least 27 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in the Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, and Kyiv regions and Kyiv city. Ukrainian forces intercepted at least 54 drones across Ukraine, including 30 near Kyiv city, as well as a missile in the Khmelnytskyi region.
- Russian shelling, missiles, aerial bombs, and drones killed at least 20 civilians in the Donetsk, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Zhytomyr regions and the city of Kyiv.
- Ukrainian drones and shelling reportedly killed at least ten civilians in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including four in proximity to Russian military positions. Additionally, two children were killed by a suspected Ukrainian shell in Donetsk.
Key events
- 8 Apr. | Dnipropetrovsk – Repeated Russian drone and missile strikes kill one and injure 26 civilians in Dnipro over two days
- 10 Apr. | Mykolaiv – A Russian drone strike injures 10 civilians in Mykolaiv city
- 11 Apr. | Zhytomyr – Russian drones kill one and injure five civilians in Ozerne
Spotlight: Russian targeting of Sumy leaves scores dead
On the morning of 13 April, two Russian ballistic missiles carrying cluster munitions hit Sumy city center, killing at least 35 civilians and injuring 117 others.1Vitalii Hnidyi and Max Hunder, “Russian missile strike kills 35 in Ukraine’s Sumy, Kyiv says,” Reuters, 14 April 2025 The mass civilian fatality event (which involves at least 10 civilian deaths ) occurred less than 10 days after a similar attack on Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region and became the deadliest strike since October 2023, when a Russian ballistic missile killed 59 civilians at a wake luncheon for a fallen soldier in Hroza in the Kharkiv region.
Russia began ramping up remote attacks on the Sumy region and its eponymous capital in March 2024. The number of strikes increased further in August when Ukrainian forces seized a part of Russia’s Kursk region, which they held until mid-March 2025. The aerial targeting of the Sumy region with glide bombs and drones — the former launched beyond the ranges of Ukraine’s air defense — became Russia’s preferred tactic over routine cross-border shelling since Russia’s retreat from the region in the first month of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since August 2024, Russian strikes have killed at least 161 civilians in the Sumy region, in contrast to over 200 during the previous two and a half years of war.
Since the beginning of 2025, ACLED records at least six mass civilian fatality events in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Poltava, Donetsk, and Sumy regions. This compares to 14 such events in 2024 and 11 in 2023. Over half of about 90 such events occurred in 2022 as part of indiscriminate targeting and apparent atrocities committed by the Russian forces in the early weeks of the invasion.
Explore the ACLED Conflict Exposure tool to assess the numbers of people affected by armed violence, disaggregated by locations, time period, and actors involved.
Ukraine Conflict: Interactive Map
This interactive map includes political violence events in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022.
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 Ukranian 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.
Curated Data
This file contains all political violence events, demonstration events, and strategic developments recorded in Ukraine and the Black Sea from the beginning of ACLED coverage in 2018 to the present.
For an overview, see our interactive dashboard.
Ukraine & the Black Sea ( 11 April 2025 )
Attacks on Ukranian 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. This file contains all events featuring one or more of these tags.
For more information, read our methodology note.
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Information & 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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