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EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Russian Federation

NOT LIVE · RUSSIAN FEDERATION RECORD RUNS 2 JAN 2024 → 24 MAY 2026

This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.

Between 2 Jan 2024 and 24 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 1,311 events of organised violence in Russian Federation from published sources. Their best estimate is 15,138 people killed — and their own range runs 6,032–18,327, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

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What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE15,138

UCDP range 6,032–18,327. On 8of these events UCDP’s own bounds do not bracket its own best estimate; the range above spans everything it published rather than hiding the conflict in the figures.

EVENTS1,311

882 placed precisely enough to map; 429 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based1,308 events · 14,990 killed (UCDP range 5,886–18,179) — A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
One-sided3 events · 148 killed (UCDP range 146–148) — An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Russia - Ukraine14,858
5,798–18,027 · 1,267 ev
IS - Civilians146
UCDP low and high agree · 2 ev
Russia: Islamic State68
56–74 · 18 ev
Russia (Soviet Union): Government62
30–76 · 22 ev
Government of Russia (Soviet Union) - Civilians2
0–2 · 1 ev
Unidentified actor2
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev

Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.

The deadliest single event on record

1 NOV 2024 · BORDER BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE2,221 killed †

UCDP range 632–2,221. UCDP publishes low 2,130 and high 632 against a best estimate of 2,221 — its own bounds do not bracket its own figure, so the range shown spans everything UCDP published for this event.

Russia - Ukraine · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.

Russian Federation, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer

Russian Federation in the Atlas →Who fled →On the live Earth map →

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Russian Federation under the name “Russia (Soviet Union)”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.