Top photo: The Darnytska Combined Heat and Power Plant in Kyiv after a Russian attack on Feb. 3, 2026. Photo: Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
Summary: Russia’s air campaign has shifted to mass drone attacks. Ukraine’s Air Force recorded a few hundred or fewer drones a month in late 2022 and roughly 4,800 to 9,900 a month in 2026. DeepState map data show Russia’s net gains were mostly 130 to 560 square kilometers a month in 2025, but under 100 a month since May 2026. The Kiel Institute has recorded no new U.S. government aid allocations since the first quarter of 2025, while European donors and EU institutions have continued to allocate aid.
This tracker shows how the Russia-Ukraine war has changed over time, month by month, in eight charts. It complements our Ukraine War Stats page, which carries the daily totals, equipment losses, refugee figures and a full timeline of the war. Every chart below names its source and the date its data runs through. Figures from Ukraine and Russia, which are parties to the war, are labeled as claims. Where a number is an estimate, we say so.
Charts load as you scroll. Tap or hover over a chart to see exact figures. The most recent month in each chart may be incomplete.
Russian missile and drone attacks over time
Ukraine’s Air Force reports how many missiles and drones Russia launched in each overnight attack and how many were shot down or electronically suppressed. These charts add those reports up by month, starting in October 2022, when Russia began regular mass strikes on Ukraine’s power grid.
1. Drones launched vs. destroyed, by month
2. Missiles launched vs. destroyed, by month
3. Share reported destroyed, by month
Territory: how much of Ukraine Russia occupies
DeepState, a Ukrainian open-source mapping group, publishes a daily map of the front line. The figures below are monthly readings of its map and are estimates. They include Crimea and the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions held by Russia before 2022, and they show net change, so territory changing hands in both directions within a month can cancel out.
4. Area of Ukraine occupied by Russia, end of each month
Military losses
Neither Russia nor Ukraine publishes reliable casualty figures for its own forces. Ukraine’s General Staff publishes daily claims of Russian losses. Independent journalists and Western governments publish lower, differently defined numbers. Russia’s Defense Ministry last gave a death toll for its own troops in September 2022.
5. Russian personnel losses per month, as claimed by Ukraine
6. Russian military losses: how the estimates compare
Civilian casualties
7. Civilians killed and injured in Ukraine, by year
International aid to Ukraine over time
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy records government aid to Ukraine when it is delivered or earmarked for delivery (“allocations”). Its monthly data show who has carried the load over time.
8. Aid allocations to Ukraine per quarter, by donor group
Methodology and caveats
- No interpolation. Each point is a figure published by the source for that period. Months without data are left blank.
- Party-to-conflict data. Missile and drone counts and Russian loss claims come from Ukraine’s military. They are widely cited, but they are claims by a party to the war.
- Estimates. Territory figures are map-based estimates. Casualty totals from Mediazona are minimum counts of named people, not totals.
- Different definitions. Casualties may mean deaths only or killed and wounded combined; each chart says which.
- Updates. We refresh the missile, drone and loss charts weekly, territory and civilian figures monthly, and aid figures with each Kiel Institute release.
Sources
- Massive Missile Attacks on Ukraine, Petro Ivaniuk, compiled from Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; retrieved Oct. 28, 2026)
- DeepState map and deepstat.xyz monthly table (retrieved Oct. 28, 2026)
- General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, daily loss reports
- Mediazona: Russian losses in the war with Ukraine (updated Oct. 23, 2026)
- Mediazona and Meduza: 352,000 deaths in four years (May 9, 2026)
- UK statement to the OSCE on Russian losses (GOV.UK)
- UN OHCHR: Protection of civilians in Ukraine
- Kiel Institute for the World Economy: Ukraine Support Tracker, Release 31 (Oct. 7, 2026)
Additional sources
- Kiel Ukraine Support Tracker data explorer (monthly allocations by donor)
- Kiel Policy Brief: How much aid has Germany given to Ukraine?
- BBC Russian: delays in confirming Russian military deaths (Oct. 2, 2026, in Russian)
- Institute for the Study of War, daily campaign assessments
- UNHCR Ukraine refugee situation portal
- IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix: Ukraine
Photo: Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Chart data on this page: embedded JSON.