RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
In the first nine months of 2026, Russia recruited more foreigners than in the entire year of 2025. This was reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners...
On October 21, the Belarusian ambassador to Slovakia, Igor Fisenko, presented his credentials to the country’s president, Peter Pellegrini. This was announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus....
Slovakia is resuming intergovernmental consultations with Russia—talks that had been suspended following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On October 26, energy cooperation—specifically gas supplies and the continued import of Russian...
Belarusian mercenaries are being promised sums equivalent to tens of thousands of euros, high salaries, housing, food, military pensions, and life insurance. Russia has long viewed Belarus as a convenient...
MAIN NEWS
On October 25, Russian forces launched over 40 attacks across three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region. They employed drones and artillery; in the city of Dnipro, infrastructure was damaged as...
On the night of October 22, Russian forces launched three ballistic missiles carrying cluster warheads against Kyiv. One of the missiles struck the historic Pechersk district, landing between the Kyiv-Pechersk...
Russian forces targeted civilian settlements in the region using artillery, UAVs, and guided aerial bombs. Throughout the day on October 22, Russian troops relentlessly attacked the city of Dnipro, as...
On the afternoon of October 19, the Russian military launched a strike using a “Geran-3” type drone on a central park in the settlement of Nova Vodolaha, in the Kharkiv...
KILLING CIVILIANS
Police in the Sumy region are documenting the aftermath of Russian strikes that occurred on October 24, which resulted in one death and 13 injuries. In the Buryn community, Russian...
On the evening of October 25, Russian drones attacked the “Epicentr” shopping center in the Osnovianskyi district of Kharkiv, as well as a civilian enterprise in the Industrialnyi district. The...
On October 24, Russian forces attacked Synelnykove in the Dnipropetrovsk region using a drone. The attack resulted in 3 dead and 12 injuries. An 11-year-old girl is among the wounded....
At the time of the strike by a jet-powered drone—which occurred on October 22 at approximately 1:00 p.m.—a 46-year-old resident of the Sarny district and her daughters, aged 16 and...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
Early on October 25, a Russian strike on a multi-story residential building in Vinnytsia left six people injured, with some apartments completely destroyed. A nursing home for the elderly in...
On October 24, two people were injured in the Kherson region due to Russian shelling. Russian forces attacked 43 settlements across the region. According to Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the...
On October 25, “Epicentr” reported attacks in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, and Poltava. Within a single 24-hour period—October 24–25—Russian strikes hit four “Epicentr” hypermarkets, part of Ukraine’s leading chain for home...
Russian forces launched a second strike on a food production facility in the Odesa region. A two-story administrative building was damaged, and the resulting fire has been extinguished. In Kiliia,...
UKRAINIANS IN RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY
A Russian court has handed down a verdict in the “case” of Yevhen Karpenko, a resident of Mariupol whom the Russians accused of “aiding terrorism” and “high treason.” He was...
A Russian court in the Left Bank of the Kherson region sentenced a 23-year-old resident of Chaplynka to 5 years and 6 months in prison on charges of spreading allegedly...
A 47-year-old resident of the temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, was detained by the Russian FSB. The woman is charged with Article 276 “Espionage” of the Criminal Code of the...
A Russian court has sentenced Yulia Buyevets, a resident of Volnovakha, Donetsk region, to 12 years in prison for allegedly passing on data about Russian military personnel to Ukrainian intelligence....
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
Russian forces transported a group of young people from the temporarily occupied Kherson region to Yekaterinburg to participate in the so-called International Youth Festival. In doing so, the aggressor state...
Russia has announced the development of another textbook for the “re-education” of Ukrainian children – this time for territories that they do not control. The scientific director of the “Russian...
In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Russian military personnel seize humanitarian cargo intended for the local population and use it to meet their own needs. Food, water and other...
The Russians are using kidnapped Ukrainian children as a strategic resource, spending billions of rubles on their Russification and militarization. In the occupied and Russian territories, even schoolchildren aged 10–12...
GENEVA CONVENTION VIOLATIONS
On the afternoon of October 22, Russian forces struck a passenger electric train in the Kharkiv region with a drone, causing a fire in the lead carriage. The attack occurred...
On October 10, at approximately 12:30 p.m., Russian forces struck a hospital in Kharkiv’s Slobidskyi district with a “Banderol” missile; doctors and patients were inside the building at the time....
On the evening of October 7, Russian forces attacked Kyiv with strike drones. One of them hit a residential high-rise, resulting in deaths and injuries, the State Emergency Service press...
Car after being hit by an FPV drone, Shestakove, Kharkiv region, September 27. A man was killed and his wife suffered an acute stress reaction after an FPV drone struck...