Ukraine Conflict Monitor
Update
Ukraine war situation update: 26 July – 1 August 2025
Overview of political violence and conflict events in Ukraine from 26 July to 1 August 2025
Key stats
1,339 political violence events
6% decrease compared to last week
122 incidents of violence targeting civilians
1% increase compared to last week
At least 97 fatalities from civilian targeting
94% increase compared to last week
Key events
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28 Jul.
Zaporizhia – Russian aerial bombs kill 16 detainees and injure 94 others at a prison in Bilenke
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29 Jul.
Kharkiv – Russian missiles kill seven civilians and injure three others queuing for water in Novoplatonivka
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29 Jul.
Dnipropetrovsk – Russian missiles hit a hospital and maternity ward in Kamianske, killing three and injuring 22 civilians
Key trends
- Russian forces occupied three villages in the Donetsk region: one south of Kostiantynivka, one south of Pokrovsk, and a third north of Myrnohrad. Russian forces also advanced near Siversk and Lyman and claimed the takeover of Chasiv Yar, which Ukraine denies. On the Zaporizhia-Donetsk administrative line, Russian forces occupied Temyrivka.
- In the Kharkiv region, Russian forces advanced north of Kupiansk and near Vovchansk. In the Sumy region, Ukrainian forces continued pushing back the Russian offensive.
- ACLED records at least 17 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in the western regions of Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnytskyi, as well as in Kyiv city and the surrounding region.
- Russian shelling, missiles, aerial bombs, and drones killed at least 85 civilians in the city of Kyiv, as well as in the Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Sumy regions. Meanwhile, Ukrainian shelling and drones reportedly killed eight civilians in the occupied parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Donetsk regions.
Spotlight: A Russian combined strike kills 31, injures 179 in another massive casualty event in Kyiv
On 31 July, Russia launched eight ballistic missiles and around 300 drones at Kyiv city in one of its largest attacks on Ukraine’s capital since the beginning of the war. As a result, 31 civilians were killed and 179 others were injured across the city. In a pattern previously seen during similar mass casualty attacks in April and June, most casualties were caused by a direct hit and subsequent collapse of a residential building. Over 100 other buildings were also damaged across the city, most of them residential.
Kyiv city was considered relatively safe after Ukrainian forces repelled Russia’s initial invasion in early 2022, but it has become increasingly dangerous for its over 3 million residents. ACLED records double the amount of Russian remote targeting of the city in 2024 compared with 2023 and a further escalation in the first seven months of 2025. The number of drone attacks already exceeds the total number for the entire 2024 by almost a quarter. Roughly a third of all Russian strikes on Kyiv city in both 2024 and 2025 led to civilian casualties; however, those in 2025 have become more lethal. They have claimed over 100 lives — more than double the annual toll in the previous three years.
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