RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
Lukashenko has once again resorted to intimidating his Western neighbors. During a visit to the Minsk district on October 12, he stated that economic cooperation with Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia...
African countries are urging Ukraine to repatriate citizens who were detained while fighting on Russia’s side. This was reported by Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-08/african-countries-call-for-ukraine-to-return-captured-prisoners Specifically, Kenyan Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi stated that...
The Latvian Saeima has adopted amendments to the Law on Restricting Activities Threatening National Security. According to LSM, these amendments ban municipal councilors from traveling to Belarus and Russia. https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/politika/08.10.2026-deputatam-samoupravlenii-zapreshheno-ezdit-v-rf-i-belarus-seim.a666720/...
Belarus is intensifying pressure on neighboring countries and effectively turning its border into a tool of the Kremlin, reports the Italian newspaper «Il Foglio». https://www.ilfoglio.it/en/world/2026/10/08/news/the-incursion-into-latvia-and-minsks-border-policy-a-sharp-weapon-to-help-putin-with-kyiv–409884 On the night of October...
MAIN NEWS
On October 18, Russian forces launched an attack on Odesa, damaging the roof of a high-rise building. Two people sustained injuries. All relevant city emergency services were immediately deployed to...
On October 18, Russian forces attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region over twenty times, employing drones, artillery, and aerial bombs. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported that the...
A Kherson resident, wounded during Russian airstrikes on the Korabelnyi district on October 17, has died in the hospital. Consequently, the death toll has risen to two, with another 35...
On October 15, the Russian army launched a second strike on the Poltava community. This time, a Russian drone struck the grounds of an enterprise, damaging a building and three...
KILLING CIVILIANS
One person was injured in the Lviv region as a result of a Russian attack. Emergency responders extinguished fires at critical infrastructure facilities caused by the strikes. Residential buildings and...
On the morning of October 20, a Russian drone crashed near a gas station in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, located on the border between the capital and the Kyiv region. The...
On October 19, Russian forces used a drone to attack a street in the settlement of Novovorontsovka, located in the Beryslav district of the Kherson region. A 17-year-old male and...
Four people sustained injuries of varying severity as a result of another Russian attack on the Rivne region. This was reported by the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine. Significant...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
As a result of a Russian attack on October 19, the “2K” company’s facility in Khmelnytskyi sustained extensive damage. Operations at the facility have currently been halted. According to the...
On October 20, Russian forces attacked a shopping center in the Rivne region. According to preliminary information, three people were injured, two of whom have been hospitalized. A fire broke...
In the settlement of Manevychi, Volyn region, Russian drone attacks have continued for the fourth consecutive day. A strike on the private enterprise “Agrofrukt” resulted in the death of one...
On the night of October 20, Russian forces targeted energy facilities and civilian infrastructure in the Volyn region. Kovel was the area hit hardest that night; specifically, a strike was...
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 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...
On September 22, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Russian forces used a drone to attack a car in Novovorontsovka, Kherson region. A 63-year-old man sustained fatal injuries as a result of...
For the approximately five million residents of frontline regions, the issue is not a lack of agricultural produce, but the difficulty of delivering it. Russian forces attack the vehicles used...