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Kursk oblast, Russia: events and estimated deaths in December 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 11 events of organized violence in Kursk oblast, Russia in December 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 22. The low estimate is 14 and the high estimate is 33. UCDP counts 2 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for November 2025 was 6 events.

The count for December 2024 was 65 events. The change from December 2024 to December 2025 is down 83 percent. Among the 26 months with a report for Kursk oblast, Russia, December 2025 has the 15th highest count of events. Kursk oblast, Russia holds 37 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Russia in December 2025. In December 2024, the share was 87 percent.

The report of the country for this month: Russia, December 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Russia has each event.

No event of this month has 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file has each event.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 1. Kursk oblast: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of December 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Russia (Soviet Union)1122
Government of Ukraine1122

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 2. Monthly reports of Kursk oblast, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20265P14PCandidate Events
August 20269P29PCandidate Events
July 20264P9PCandidate Events
June 202610P15PCandidate Events
May 20262P7PCandidate Events
April 20267P25PCandidate Events
March 20265P9PCandidate Events
February 20263P4PCandidate Events
January 20262P3PCandidate Events
December 20251122GED
November 2025614GED
October 2025914GED
September 20251345GED
August 20251328GED
July 20252260GED
June 20252144GED
May 20252478GED
April 202540149GED
March 202556345GED
February 202554438GED
January 202554638GED
December 202465558GED
November 2024113973GED
October 2024127915GED
September 2024104518GED
August 202486528GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Kursk oblast: all figures

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ConflictStats. Kursk oblast, Russia: events and estimated deaths in December 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/russia/kursk-oblast/month/2025-12/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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