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Please watch my colleague Olha explain how hard it is for researchers to disaggregate accurate military fatalities in Ukraine without much sensationalism, list constraints by sources and methodology, but also share how it feels, as a researcher and Ukrainian, to deal with the toll of the war.

#Ukraine has increasingly brought the war onto Russian territory through its expanding long-range drone campaign in 2025. Strikes on Russian oil infrastructure reached as far as the Caspian Sea and Russia-linked tankers from the Black Sea to Libya & Senegal 👉 acleddata.com/report/ukrai...

Four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, the war remains a costly battle of attrition — with limited Russian gains alongside its most destructive campaign yet against civilians & energy infrastructure. Explore 6 new trends shaping the war: acleddata.com/report/ukrai...

Hard to keep to only a few highlights of the past year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but the deliberate targeting of the energy infrastructure and its devastating effect on civilians in Ukraine is one key event we focus on in our latest ACLED report:
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#Ukraine entered its coldest winter of the war under intensified Russian strikes on its energy system. Since September, #ACLED records over 735 attacks damaging energy infrastructure — already more than any previous winter. Full details: acleddata.com/report/ukrai...

What drives protests for and against #migrants worldwide? #ACLED records migration-related demonstrations in over 75 countries since the beginning of 2025, from peaceful demonstrations to episodes of violence perpetrated by radical groups. 📊 Full: acleddata.com/report/migra...

Russian forces have intensified cross-border attacks into Ukraine’s #Sumy and #Kharkiv regions, probing previously dormant border areas. ACLED records clashes in nearly a dozen new locations last week, as small infantry groups crossed without heavy equipment. 🔗 acleddata.com/monitor/ukra...

The pause did little to change Russian tactics and reflects the limited impact of previous ceasefires on battlefield activity and energy infrastructure, as the US continues to push for a peace deal by summer 2026.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine has shattered Europe’s security order. @munsecconf.bsky.social new report draws on ACLED data to track suspected Russian hybrid activity across EU and NATO countries since 2022 —including sabotage, cyberattacks & arson. securityconference.org/en/publicati...

#Russia resumed large-scale strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure after a brief 30 Jan–1 Feb pause under a US-mediated ceasefire. ACLED data show attacks on power, substation & gas facilities temporarily halted during that period. 🔎 #Ukraine monitor: acleddata.com/monitor/ukra...

Explosive drone detonated in Moldova village near Ukraine border Moldovan authorities carried out a controlled detonation of a Gheran-2 kamikaze drone discovered Thursday morning in the village of Crocmaz, Ștefan Vodă district. Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu con...

Explosive drone detonated in #Moldova village near Ukraine border
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MGRES has stopped again: the Transnistrian region was left without electricity for several hours - ipn.md A new breakdown at the Moldovan Thermoelectric Power Plant in Cuciurgan occurred on Friday, January 23, in the Transnistrian region. According to Moldelectrica, the plant did not produce any electrici...

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Transnistria hit by widespread blackout following Cuciurgan power plant failure Transnistria’s breakaway region suffered a major power outage on Friday after a generation unit at the Cuciurgan (MGRES) power plant failed. De facto authorities in Tiraspol reported that the electric...

#Moldova Transnistrian region hit by widespread blackout following power plant failure
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President Zelenskyi declared a state of emergency in Ukraine’s energy sector on 14 January after Russian strikes damaged power plants, gas pipelines & substations nationwide. Widespread outages have disrupted heating and water supplies for millions of people. Explore: acleddata.com/monitor/ukra...

Farmer-led protests surged across #Europe in December, driven by discontent over EU subsidies, trade policy, and the cost of doing business. ACLED records more than 1,100 demonstrations, with over half in Greece and a third in France. Full overview: acleddata.com/update/europ...

2025 was Europe’s most conflict-ridden year in decades. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social draws on ACLED data showing that nearly half of the 185,000 violent events recorded worldwide in 2025 took place in #Europe — driven largely by the war in #Ukraine. Explore: europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/a-viole...

Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of combat data, including millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI models (Max Hunder/Reuters)

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Zelensky names Pavlo Yelizarov new Air Force deputy commander, calls for overhaul of Ukraine's air defenses "Our task is to build an anti-drone dome over Ukraine. A system that does not react after the fact, but destroys the threat even during its approach," Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.

⚡️Zelensky names Pavlo Yelizarov new Air Force deputy commander, calls for overhaul of Ukraine's air defenses.

"Our task is to build an anti-drone dome over Ukraine," Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said regarding Yelizarov's appointment.

Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.

Europe and Central Asia Overview: January 2026 Farmers in Greece and France took to the streets in large numbers, and Ukraine targeted Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the Caspian Sea while Russia bombed key locations in Ukraine’s Odesa regio...

Our data-driven analysis of the farmers' protests (including about the EU-Mercosur deal), the civic protests and government resignation in Bulgaria, the strikes on Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the Caspian Sea, and the Russian bombing of the Odesa region.
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Serbia let Putin’s spies zap dogs with ‘sound cannons’ Documents show Belgrade brought in Russia’s FSB to conduct experiments on animals.

Serbian intelligence officers have tested sound cannons on dogs in collaboration with Russia’s notorious security service, according to government documents seen by POLITICO.

As it tries to plunge Ukraine even further into darkness and cold, Russia demonstratively uses Oreshnik again as its main saber-rattling means to deter Western support.

Late 2025 saw a surge in diplomacy as the US renewed efforts to end the war in #Ukraine. Talks in early January led European allies to commit security guarantees and plan troop deployments, while #Russia rejected foreign troops and signaled it would fight on. 🔗 acleddata.com/monitor/ukra...

How could US intervention in #Venezuela reshape conflict across Latin America & the Caribbean? Join #ACLED’s upcoming webinar with regional experts to unpack the implications of US actions and what this means for conflict dynamics across the region. 🔗 Register now: events.zoom.us/ev/Amxdb2H6q...

Weeks after #Russia claimed control of Kupiansk, Ukrainian forces counter-attacked on 11–12 December and regained most of the city & 3 surrounding settlements. President Zelenskyy visited Kupiansk as fighting continues. 🔗 More: acleddata.com/monitor/ukra...

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project new Conflict Index reports around 78,000 people killed — including soldiers on both sides and civilians — in Ukraine this year, the highest of any conflict.

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Graph: Nizar al-Rifai/The Kyiv Independent.

Russia Aiming To Paralyze Ukraine's Railways

Russia Aiming To Paralyze Ukraine's Railways
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Europe experienced the greatest increase in violence in 2025, as the war in Ukraine reached its highest levels since the 2022 full-scale invasion. Conflict persisted in the Middle East, while violence fell 48% amid fragile ceasefires in Lebanon & Gaza and the end of Syria’s civil war.

More armed groups are using drones than ever before. As of 2025, ACLED records 469 non-state armed groups —including insurgents, militias, gangs & transnational cartels— that have deployed #drones in attacks over the past 5 years. 58 did so for the first time this year: acleddata.com/report/whats...

Russia claimed full control of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region & Vovchansk in northern Kharkiv on 1 December, shortly after also claiming Kupiansk. While Vovchansk may no longer be under Ukrainian control, fighting continues around Pokrovsk & Kupiansk. 🔗 More: acleddata.com/monitor/ukra...