Ukraine Conflict Monitor
Update
Ukraine war situation update | 11 – 17 October 2025
Overview of political violence and conflict events in Ukraine from 11 to 17 October 2025
Key stats
1,527 political violence events
1% increase compared to last week
112 incidents of violence targeting civilians
no difference compared to last week
At least 44 fatalities from civilian targeting
12% decrease compared to last week
Key events
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11 Oct.
Donetsk — Russian airstrikes kill two civilians and wound six others in Kostiantynivka
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14 Oct.
Ternopil — A fight breaks out between military recruitment officers, police, and local residents in Ternopil city
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14 Oct.
Kherson — Russian airstrikes, drones, and shelling kill four civilians and injure five others in Kherson city
Key trends
- Russian forces seized seven villages at the junction of the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhia regions, while Ukrainian forces regained one settlement in the area.
- Russian forces also occupied two settlements in the central part of the Donetsk region near Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka, and a village southeast of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, while Ukrainian forces recaptured a village west of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhia region.
- Russian forces launched at least 25 long-range missile and drone attacks, including in the Kyiv region and the central Kirovohrad and Poltava regions.
- Russian strikes killed at least 37 civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions. Ukrainian strikes reportedly killed six civilians in the Russia-occupied parts of the Kherson, Donetsk, and Zaporizhia regions.
Spotlight: Russian forces attack a UN humanitarian convoy in Ukraine
On 14 October, Russian first-person-view drones struck a clearly marked United Nations convoy of four humanitarian trucks carrying aid to war-torn frontline communities near Bilozerka in the Kherson region, following artillery shelling of the area. The aid workers of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization that were at the scene were not wounded, but two World Food Programme trucks were damaged and set on fire.1 Two days later, Russian strikes also destroyed a humanitarian aid vehicle delivering food and fuel to Beryslav in the Kherson region.2 Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, ACLED records around 80 remote violence events targeting aid workers. Nearly half of them occurred in the Kherson region, where Russian first-person-view drones have been known to indiscriminately prey on moving vehicles and civilians.3 In addition, ACLED records around a dozen incidents of attacks, torture, or abduction of aid workers, as well as several instances of destruction or looting of aid or vehicles delivering it, occuring primarily in the occupied areas of Ukraine during the early stages of Russia’s invasion in 2022.
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