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Ukraine Conflict Monitor

ACLED’s Ukraine Conflict Monitor provides near real-time information on the ongoing war, including an interactive map, 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.

Interactive map

This map includes political violence events in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022.

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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 Ukrainian 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.

Key events

  1. 23 Nov.

    Dnipropetrovsk — A Russian-recruited teenager detonates two explosives in Dnipro city, killing a civilian and wounding an emergency officer

  2. 23 Nov.

    Kharkiv — Russian drones kill six civilians and wound 17 others in Kharkiv city

  3. 25 Nov.

    Kyiv — Russian drones and missiles kill seven civilians and wound over 20 others in Kyiv city

Key trends

  • In the Donetsk region, Russian forces seized four villages, advancing in and near Pokrovsk, in and near Kostiantynivka, and toward Lyman. Russian forces also gained ground in the area of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region and in the directions of Kupiansk and Borova in the Kharkiv region, occupying at least one village in each region.
  • During offensives near Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region and west of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Russian forces infiltrated Ukrainian positions and executed over a dozen unarmed surrendering servicemen.
  • Russian forces launched at least 30 long-range missile and drone attacks, including on the western region of Khmelnytskyi and the capital city of Kyiv.
  • Russian strikes killed at least 45 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions, as well as in Kyiv city and the eponymous region.

Spotlight: Ukraine begins hunting down Russian shadow fleet vessels

On 28 November, Ukrainian naval drones struck two Gambian-flagged tankers in the Turkish exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Black Sea. Both tankers are on the European Union’s sanction list for transporting Russian oil and were heading to an oil terminal in the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which has been the target of Ukrainian drone strikes on at least three occasions throughout November.1 The strikes damaged both ships, and the Turkish coast guard evacuated their crews. In the following days, a Russia-flagged ship also reported a Ukrainian naval drone attack off the coast of Turkey.2 While wartime operations in foreign EEZs are permissible, Turkey has condemned the attacks, claiming they have posed “serious risks to navigation, life, property, and environmental safety in the region.”3 

The latest censure comes on the back of further criticism of such operations by importers of Russian oil and points to a wider Ukrainian focus on Russia’s international oil trade. During the same week, Kazakhstan criticized Ukraine over recent strikes on the terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium that supplies oil to the country. It said these were impermissible attacks on “an exclusively civilian facility.”4 Back in August, Hungary and Slovakia also voiced criticism over Ukraine’s attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline. 

The operation of Russia’s shadow fleet has itself been associated with notable maritime safety concerns around Europe. Russia uses hundreds of vessels registered in third states not only to evade sanctions placed on its oil industry that continues to fund the war in Ukraine but also to conduct sabotage activities against Ukraine’s allies. Mirroring prior events throughout the war, ACLED records several shadow fleet-linked acts of sabotage in 2025. In February, Swedish police launched an investigation into yet another instance of damage to an undersea telecoms cable connecting Finland and Germany.5 Meanwhile, a Benin-flagged Boracay tanker is suspected of launching drones that forced the closure of airports in Denmark in September this year.6 Overall, ACLED records 25 incidents of sabotage and espionage in Europe connected to Russia-linked vessels since February 2022.

Explore the ACLED Conflict Exposure Calculator to assess the numbers of people affected by armed violence, disaggregated by locations, time period, and actors involved.

Download Ukraine data

Data on Ukraine

This file contains all political violence events, demonstration events, and strategic developments recorded in Ukraine and the Black Sea from 2020-present.

Situation updates

Recent 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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Footnotes

  1. 1

    Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder, “Ukraine hits two Russian ‘shadow fleet’ oil tankers with naval drones,” Reuters, 29 November 2025

  2. 2

    Daren Butler and Tuvan Gumrukcu, “Russian-flagged tanker reports attack off Turkey coast, maritime body says,” Reuters, 2 December 2025

  3. 3

    The Associated Press, “Turkey condemns Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil tankers off Black Sea coast,” 30 November 2025

  4. 4

    Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin, “Kazakhstan tells Ukraine to stop attacking CPC terminal after oil exports halted,” Reuters, 30 November 2025

  5. 5

    Eve Webster, “Sweden investigates suspected sabotage of undersea telecoms cable,” BBC News, 21 February 2025

  6. 6

    Hugh Schofield and Danai Nesta Kupemba, “French troops board oil tanker linked to Russian 'shadow fleet,'” BBC, 1 October 2025

Country
Ukraine
Region
Europe and Central Asia
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