1,498 political violence events1% increase compared to last week129 incidents of violence targeting civilians4% decrease compared to last weekAt least 57 fatalities from civilian targeting6% increase compared to last weekKey trendsIn the Donetsk region, Russian forces advanced near Kostiantynivka, north and northeast of Lyman, east of Pokrovsk, and north of Velyka Novosilka near the administrative boundary with the Dnipropetrovsk region.Russian forces also advanced in the direction of Borova in the Kharkiv region and in the western part of the Zaporizhia region.ACLED records at least 40 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in the western regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi, Lviv, and Volyn, as well as in Kyiv city and the surrounding region.Russian shelling, aerial bombs, and drones killed at least 53 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhia regions, as well as in the city of Kyiv. Meanwhile, Ukrainian shelling and drones reportedly killed at least four civilians in the occupied parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhia regions.Key events8 Jul. | Zaporizhia – Russia transfers around 100 Ukrainian children to a military camp in Russia’s Volgograd10 Jul. | Kyiv city – Russian strikes kill a civilian and a police officer and wound at least 28 people10 Jul. | Kyiv city – Russian Federal Security Service agents assassinate a Ukrainian colonelSpotlight: Russia scales up the targeting of Ukrainian military recruitment centersSince 30 June, Russia has carried out drone strikes targeting military recruitment centers across Ukraine in the first such recorded wave of events. On 7 July, Russian drones struck several locations in Kharkiv city, including a military recruitment center. The strikes killed one civilian and injured over 80 people, including at least four servicemen. On the same day, Russian drones struck a territorial recruitment center in Zaporizhia city, along with private houses and other civilian infrastructure, killing two servicemen and injuring 18 civilians. Another military enlistment center was hit on 6 July in Kremenchuk in the Poltava region. Russian drones also targeted recruitment centers in Poltava city and Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region the week before, leading to casualties among both servicemen and civilians. Ukrainian sources suggest that the current wave of attacks intends to destroy data on those liable for military service that has not yet been entered into the unified register of conscripts and, at the same time, scare residents away from visiting the centers in order to disrupt mobilization.1 The Russian state and its propagandists have acknowledged the new strategy of targeting enlistment centers and have spread sponsored content on social media about military recruitment in Ukraine being forced and unpopular.2 Mobilization efforts in Ukraine are ongoing as parliament prepares to once more prolong the martial law and the period of general mobilization in August.3 While targeted drone strikes are a new development, military recruitment centers have been the target of other types of attacks in the past, increasingly so in 2025. This includes three explosions likely organized by Russian special services in enlistment centers in Rivne, Pavlohrad, and Kamianets-Podilskyi in early February. In the following months, ACLED records about a dozen more attacks by unidentified individuals on enlistment offices or their servicemen, including a stabbing incident, shooting incidents, car bombs, and an arson incident. Explore the ACLED Conflict Exposure tool to assess the numbers of people affected by armed violence, disaggregated by locations, time period, and actors involved.1 Vera Khmelnytska, “Russia attacks Ukrainian recruitment centers: the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke of the enemy’s goal,” TSN, 7 July 2025 (Ukrainian)2 Serhiy Morgunov, “Russia attacks Ukraine’s recruitment centers to disrupt mobilization,” The Washington Post, 15 July 20253 Kristina Solonchak, “Mobilization in July 2025: will it be intensified and who can be enlisted?” Espreso, 26 June 2025 (Ukrainian); Tanya Poliakovska, “Zelenskyy initiated the extension of martial law and mobilization,” Unian, 14 July 2025 (Ukrainian)The post Ukraine war situation update: 5 – 11 July 2025 appeared first on ACLED.