Last updated: 19 March 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
8 – 14 March 2025
1302 political violence events
13% increase compared to last week
77 incidents of violence targeting civilians
17% increase compared to last week
At least 35 fatalities from civilian targeting
13% decrease compared to last week
Key trends
- Russian forces occupied three settlements in the Donetsk region and one in the Zaporizhia region. Ukrainian forces reclaimed a settlement north of Dvorichna in the Kharkiv region.
- ACLED records 26 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in the Kyiv region. Ukrainian forces intercepted strikes in at least 40 other instances in 15 regions, including the western regions of Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia.
- Russian shelling, missiles, and drones killed at least 32 civilians in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Key events
- 11 Mar. | Ivano-Frankivsk – A teenager is killed and another wounded while planting explosives near a train station
- 11 Mar. | Odesa – A Russian missile strikes a Barbados-flagged ship in Odesa port, killing four Syrian crew members
- 14 Mar. | Odesa – Russian drones strike energy infrastructure in Chornomorsk, causing a power outage and injuring two civilians
Spotlight: Ukraine withdraws from its foothold in Russia’s Kursk region
Last week, Russia regained at least 30 settlements around Sudzha as well as the district capital itself, mostly due to Ukraine’s withdrawal from the area without significant fighting. The Chief of Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov claimed on 12 March that Russian forces now control 86% of the area Ukraine initially seized in August 2024.1Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan, “Putin orders army to eject last Ukrainian troops from Russian territory,” Reuters, 13 March 2025 The Russian military touted catching Ukrainian troops in Sudzha off-guard by moving a Russian reconnaissance group through the disabled Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod gas pipeline, though the effects are unclear as the Ukrainian military claimed it had prior knowledge of the plan.2Meduza, “The General staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that the Russian military tried to infiltrate Sudzha through the gas pipeline,” 9 March 2025 Ukrainian forces appear to be holding the heights overseeing the town of Sudzha in order to push back on Russian attempts to re-invade Ukraine’s Sumy region. But reports of Ukrainian losses of equipment, encirclement of smaller groups, and execution of at least five surrendered Ukrainian troops in Kazach’ya-Loknya show a possibly costly end to Ukraine’s counter-invasion of Russia’s Kursk region.3Oleh Chernysh, “Why the Armed Forces still hold a piece of Kursk region and is there a threat of encirclement,” BBC Ukraine, 17 March 2025; The Economist, “Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth,” 17 March 2025
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 ( 14 March 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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