Ukrainian forces also continued counterattacks south and southwest of Velyka Novosilka close to the administrative boundary between the Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions. Other sources may come to different figures due to differing methodologies and catchments.įighting continued in the Donetsk region, where Ukrainian forces reportedly advanced in the area of Bakhmut.
ACLED additionally only captures fatalities that are directly caused by political violence indirect conflict-related fatalities caused by disease or starvation, for example, are not included in these estimates. These figures should therefore be understood as indicative estimates rather than definitive fatality counts (for more on ACLED’s approach to coding fatalities, see FAQs: ACLED Fatality Methodology). ACLED is also a ‘living dataset’, so all fatality figures are revised and corrected - upward or downward - if new or better information becomes available (which, in some conflict contexts, can be months or years after an event has taken place). When and where possible, ACLED researchers seek out information to triangulate the numbers from any report, but we do not independently verify fatalities. ACLED estimates are restricted to fatalities reported during individual events, meaning that these estimates may be particularly conservative in comparison with sources that do not use an event-based methodology.
ACLED defaults to conservative estimates based on the best available information at the time of coding in line with our specific event-based methodology and review process. 1 Tracking fatalities is one of the most difficult aspects of conflict data collection in general, as fatality counts are frequently the most biased, inconsistent, and poorly documented components of conflict reporting, and this is especially true of active conflict environments impacted by high levels of mis/disinformation and severe access constraints. For these reasons, the Monitor will not be providing regular fatality estimate updates at this time.
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ACLED fatality numbers are conservative event-based estimates, and the full death toll in such contexts is likely higher than the number of reported fatalities currently attributed to the type of distinct incidents that can be captured in the dataset. This means that aggregate tallies provided by sources such as hospitals and government agencies, for example, which cannot be broken down and connected to individual conflict incidents, are not included in the ACLED dataset. Due to the methodological limitations of event-based data collection, in addition to the broader challenges around fatality reporting in fast-moving conflict contexts like Ukraine, fatality estimates in the ACLED dataset pertain specifically to those fatalities reported in connection with distinct events that meet ACLED’s catchment and minimum threshold for inclusion (i.e.
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