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Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in August 2026

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

UCDP recorded 28 eventsP of organized violence in Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine in August 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 59P. The low estimate is 51 and the high estimate is 67P. UCDP counts 46P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for July 2026 was 38 eventsP.

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

The report of the country for this month: Ukraine, August 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 26.0.8, 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 Ukraine has each event.

Table 1. Kharkiv oblast, August 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (1 of 28 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
18 Aug 2026Chuhuiv raion, Kharkiv oblastGovernment of Russia (Soviet Union); Government of UkraineState-based101010

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

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Kharkiv oblast: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Russia (Soviet Union)28P59P
Government of Ukraine28P59P

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 3. Monthly reports of Kharkiv oblast, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
August 202628P59PCandidate Events
July 202638P95PCandidate Events
June 202630P48PCandidate Events
May 202622P41PCandidate Events
April 202629P57PCandidate Events
March 202625P57PCandidate Events
February 202613P23PCandidate Events
January 202631P68PCandidate Events
December 2025110223GED
November 2025113223GED
October 2025103204GED
September 202585154GED
August 202581173GED
July 202579164GED
June 202547100GED
May 202552129GED
April 202570205GED
March 202573265GED
February 202576274GED
January 202547199GED
December 202477314GED
November 202459153GED
October 2024113268GED
September 2024116403GED
August 2024119240GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. A report of a month more than 24 months before the data end stays online. Search engines are asked not to list it.

Kharkiv oblast: all figures

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ConflictStats. Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in August 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/ukraine/kharkiv-oblast/month/2026-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8. Data through .

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