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Sumy oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in January 2026

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

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UCDP recorded 15 eventsP of organized violence in Sumy oblast, Ukraine in January 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 24P. The low estimate is 24 and the high estimate is 68P. UCDP counts 6P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2025 was 45 events.

The count for January 2025 was 8 events. The change from January 2025 to January 2026 is up 88 percentP. Among the 26 months with a report for Sumy oblast, Ukraine, January 2026 has the 20th highest count of events. Sumy oblast, Ukraine holds 7 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Ukraine in January 2026. In January 2025, the share was 2 percent.

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

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

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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. Sumy oblast: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Russia (Soviet Union)15P24P
Government of Ukraine15P24P

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 Sumy oblast, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202619P31PCandidate Events
August 202624P31PCandidate Events
July 202615P33PCandidate Events
June 202625P30PCandidate Events
May 202620P29PCandidate Events
April 202621P101PCandidate Events
March 202614P17PCandidate Events
February 202618P30PCandidate Events
January 202615P24PCandidate Events
December 20254581GED
November 20253766GED
October 202557103GED
September 202565120GED
August 202552159GED
July 202550184GED
June 202528243GED
May 202541214GED
April 202539174GED
March 20252849GED
February 20251118GED
January 2025825GED
December 20242242GED
November 20241036GED
October 2024813GED
September 20242451GED
August 20242127GED

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.

Sumy oblast: all figures

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ConflictStats. Sumy oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in January 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/ukraine/sumy-oblast/month/2026-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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