Ukraine Conflict Monitor
Update
Ukraine war situation update | 1 – 7 November 2025
Overview of political violence and conflict events in Ukraine from 1 to 7 November 2025
Key stats
1,494 political violence events
1% decrease compared to last week
113 incidents of violence targeting civilians
11% increase compared to the previous week
At least 54 fatalities from civilian targeting
7% decrease compared to last week
Key events
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1 Nov.
Mykolaiv — Russian missiles strike the Mykolaiv territorial community, killing one civilian and wounding 19 others
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1 Nov.
Dnipropetrovsk — A Russian strike on a marine award ceremony in Novotroitske kills at least 12 people
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3 Nov.
Kharkiv — A Russian drone kills two civilians carrying a white flag in Kruhliakivka
Key trends
- Russian forces seized two villages at the junction of the Donetsk-Dnipropetrovsk-Zaporizhia regions. Russian forces also occupied a settlement near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region and advanced in the eastern and northern parts of the Kharkiv region.
- Ukrainian forces claimed control over islands in the Velyki Kuchuhury reserve in the Zaporizhia region. Ukrainian forces also advanced north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.
- Russian forces launched at least 40 long-range missile and drone attacks, including on the northern region of Zhytomyr and the central region of Poltava.
- Russian strikes killed at least 47 civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. Ukrainian strikes reportedly killed five civilians in the Russia-occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
Spotlight: Ukraine intensifies attacks on Russian energy infrastructure amid continued Russian strikes
Throughout the week, Ukraine carried out attacks on energy infrastructure across 12 regions in Russia, including strikes on thermal power plants in the Kursk, Kostroma, and Oryol regions. It also continued targeting the Russian oil industry. Overall, ACLED records around a 65% increase in Ukrainian attacks that damaged energy infrastructure compared to the week prior. On 4 and 6 November, Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Sterlitamak, Republic of Bashkortostan, over 1,400 kilometres away from the Ukrainian border. Oil refineries and pumping stations were also hit in the regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Yaroslavl, and Volgograd, in addition to an oil tanker struck on 2 November in Tuapse. Throughout the war, Ukraine is estimated to have disabled up to 15% of Russia’s oil refining capacity1 in an attempt to reduce export profits. In addition to strikes on Russian territory, Ukraine also reportedly struck energy infrastructure in the Russia-occupied parts of the Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions, as well as an oil depot in Crimea.
Meanwhile, Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure continued at similar rates compared to October and affected 10 regions in Ukraine. This includes damage to unspecified energy infrastructure facilities in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions, as well as a gas extraction facility in the Poltava region. As a result of the strikes, Ukraine reintroduced daily rolling blackouts in most regions,2 which affected heating and water supply ahead of the cold season.3
Explore the ACLED Conflict Exposure Calculator to assess the numbers of people affected by armed violence, disaggregated by locations, time period, and actors involved.
Footnotes
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Ivan Nosalskyi, “How the lights will be turned off on November 11: schedules by region,” RBC Ukraine, 10 November 2025 (Ukrainian); Kateryna Zhyrii, “Rolling blackout schedules in effect again in Ukraine on Tuesday: when will the electricity be turned off on November 11,” Unian, 10 November 2025 (Ukrainian)
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