Last updated: 10 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
29 March – 4 April 2025
Key trends
- Russian forces occupied four settlements in the Donetsk region — one southwest of Pokrovsk, two north of Velyka Novosilka, and one southwest of Toretsk — as well as a settlement west of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhia region.
- ACLED records at least 20 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in the Kyiv region and Kyiv city. Ukrainian forces intercepted over a hundred drones and missiles over southern, eastern, and northern Ukraine.
- Russian shelling, missiles, and drones killed at least 46 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones and shelling reportedly killed at least four civilians in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including two in proximity to Russian military positions.
Key events
- 30 Mar. | Kharkiv – Russian drones kill two and wound 55 civilians in Kharkiv city
- 1 Apr. | Kherson – Russian forces shell energy infrastructure in Kherson city, causing blackouts for at least 45,000 residents
- 3 Apr. | Kharkiv – Russian drones hit an apartment building in Kharkiv city, killing five civilians and wounding 34 others
Spotlight: The Dnipropetrovsk region comes under heavy Russian fire
On 4 April, a Russian ballistic missile with a cluster warhead exploded midair over a playground in Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing 20 civilians, including nine children, and wounding 75 others. Additionally, it damaged over 30 residential buildings, six educational facilities, and over 30 vehicles. This was the deadliest attack on civilians in the region since June 2023. The strike came amid Russia’s repeated targeting of Kryvyi Rih, home city of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, throughout the week, including twice with ballistic missiles. Earlier strikes left four civilians dead and at least 50 injured.
Increased strikes were not, however, limited to Kryvyi Rih. Across the Dnipropetrovsk region, ACLED records 38 shelling and airstrike events last week, levels last reached in late October 2024. Around a third of these events resulted in civilian casualties, including in the region’s capital Dnipro, as well as in Nikopol and Synelnykove. Russia’s heightened aerial focus on the region comes as Russian forces are approaching the region’s administrative boundary with the Donetsk region.
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 ( 04 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.