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Donetsk oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in May 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

UCDP recorded 113 eventsP of organized violence in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine in May 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 239P. The low estimate is 154 and the high estimate is 1,014P. UCDP counts 70P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2026 was 80 eventsP.

The count for May 2025 was 248 events. The change from May 2025 to May 2026 is down 54 percentP. Among the 26 months with a report for Donetsk oblast, Ukraine, May 2026 has the 19th highest count of events. Donetsk oblast, Ukraine holds 38 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Ukraine in May 2026. In May 2025, the share was 50 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Ukraine, May 2026.

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.

The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.

Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Ukraine 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. Donetsk oblast: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Russia (Soviet Union)113P239P
Government of Ukraine113P239P

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.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 2. Monthly reports of Donetsk oblast, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202653P136PCandidate Events
August 202667P125PCandidate Events
July 2026120P279PCandidate Events
June 2026110P249PCandidate Events
May 2026113P239PCandidate Events
April 202680P181PCandidate Events
March 202694P320PCandidate Events
February 202645P81PCandidate Events
January 202685P194PCandidate Events
December 2025258701GED
November 2025236602GED
October 2025284869GED
September 2025274637GED
August 20253088,702GED
July 2025276604GED
June 2025244638GED
May 2025248751GED
April 20253121,116GED
March 20253311,141GED
February 20253041,047GED
January 2025216827GED
December 2024188706GED
November 20242441,018GED
October 20243111,121GED
September 20243491,155GED
August 20243181,055GED

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.

Donetsk oblast: all figures

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ConflictStats. Donetsk oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in May 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/ukraine/donetsk-oblast/month/2026-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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