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Zaporizhzhya oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in July 2026

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

UCDP recorded 63 eventsP of organized violence in Zaporizhzhya oblast, Ukraine in July 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 118P. The low estimate is 94 and the high estimate is 159P. UCDP counts 71P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for June 2026 was 59 eventsP.

The count for July 2025 was 69 events. The change from July 2025 to July 2026 is down 9 percentP. Among the 26 months with a report for Zaporizhzhya oblast, Ukraine, July 2026 has the 8th highest count of events. Zaporizhzhya oblast, Ukraine holds 16 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Ukraine in July 2026. In July 2025, the share was 10 percent.

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

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

Table 1. Zaporizhzhya oblast, July 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (1 of 63 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
24 Jul 2026Melitopol raion, Zaporizhzhya oblastGovernment of Russia (Soviet Union); Government of UkraineState-based111112

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. Zaporizhzhya oblast: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of July 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Russia (Soviet Union)63P118P
Government of Ukraine63P118P

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 Zaporizhzhya oblast, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202626P57PCandidate Events
August 202641P100PCandidate Events
July 202663P118PCandidate Events
June 202659P122PCandidate Events
May 202639P74PCandidate Events
April 202635P65PCandidate Events
March 202658P168PCandidate Events
February 202624P32PCandidate Events
January 202621P49PCandidate Events
December 2025101202GED
November 202585185GED
October 202583184GED
September 202577141GED
August 202580164GED
July 202569160GED
June 20254681GED
May 202547109GED
April 202567184GED
March 202563136GED
February 202545106GED
January 20252461GED
December 20242991GED
November 202440107GED
October 20244682GED
September 20244985GED
August 20244276GED

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.

Zaporizhzhya oblast: all figures

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ConflictStats. Zaporizhzhya oblast, Ukraine: events and estimated deaths in July 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/ukraine/zaporizhzhya-oblast/month/2026-07/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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