EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Ukraine

NOT LIVE · UKRAINE RECORD RUNS 1 JAN 2024 31 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 1 Jan 2024 and 31 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 19,693 events of organised violence in Ukraine from published sources. Their best estimate is 219,308 people killed — and their own range runs 117,035–378,114, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE219,308

UCDP range 117,035–378,114. On 53of 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.

EVENTS19,693

15,815 placed precisely enough to map; 3,878 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based19,669 events · 219,257 killed (UCDP range 117,002–378,061)A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
One-sided24 events · 51 killed (UCDP range 33–53)An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Russia - Ukraine219,252
116,997–378,056 · 19,668 ev
Government of Russia (Soviet Union) - Civilians39
21–41 · 19 ev
Unidentified actor - Civilians12
UCDP low and high agree · 5 ev
Unidentified actor5
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 JAN 2024 · AVDIIVKA TOWN9,569 killed

UCDP range 8,268–9,569. UCDP publishes low 9,569 and high 8,268 against a best estimate of 9,569 — 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.

Ukraine, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer

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 Ukraine under the name “Ukraine”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.