RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
Since February 2022, at least 419 people have been convicted in Belarus for supporting Ukraine. Among those punished are 73 women, and 142 of the convicted individuals remain in custody....
On October 23, the State Border Guard of Latvia recorded 50 attempts by migrants to cross the border illegally from the territory of Belarus. An analysis of daily updated statistical...
Between April 1 and October 15, 2026, at least 52 incidents occurred in European countries that may be linked to the hybrid war waged by Russia and Belarus against the...
Russia has sharply ramped up the recruitment of men in several African countries to fight in the war against Ukraine. Moscow is seeking recruits in nations where it is easier...
MAIN NEWS
On the evening of October 28, Russian forces struck a civilian facility in the Sarny district of the Rivne region. The attack sparked a fire, resulting in the death of...
According to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Russian forces launched over 40 strikes across four districts of the region, reports Khronikers. In Pavlohrad, a Russian strike...
On October 27, Russian forces launched more than 30 drone attacks across three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, resulting in one death and four injuries. In the city of Dnipro,...
Kyiv has once again been struck by Russian ballistic missiles. Intense, destructive impacts began on the evening of October 26 and continued into the night of October 27. Multiple waves...
KILLING CIVILIANS
On October 28, Russian forces launched a drone strike on the Osnovianskyi district of Kharkiv, resulting in one death and three injuries. A fire broke out at the site of...
On the night of October 27, Russian forces launched a massive ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. As a result of the shelling, one woman was killed, and at least 15...
In Zaporizhzhia, the number of people wounded following a Russian FPV drone attack on a public transport stop on October 25 has risen to six. Among the victims is a...
On October 25, Russian forces attacked a cattle farm in the Konotop district of the Sumy region. An enemy drone strike resulted in the death of a female employee, while...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
On October 28, at approximately 16:00, Russian forces attacked Chernihiv using a “Banderol” type munition. The strike damaged the municipal enterprise “Krok do Tvaryn” (“A Step Toward Animals”), which provides...
On the afternoon of October 27, the Russian army attacked several districts of Kharkiv using UAVs (drones). The strikes damaged the entrance to a metro station and an administrative building....
Suzuki and Subaru dealerships in Kyiv were damaged during a Russian attack on the night of October 27. The Suzuki car and motorcycle showrooms in the Podil district have temporarily...
On the morning of October 26, the Russian military launched a drone attack on an emergency medical service station in Kherson. The strikes damaged the building, a generator, and an...
UKRAINIANS IN RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY
The Russian-controlled so-called Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced a resident of occupied Simferopol to 18 years in a maximum-security penal colony. The man was charged with high treason for filming...
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...
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 October 25, at approximately 3:00 PM, Russian forces struck a minibus with a drone in the Central District of Kherson. Six people—three men and three women—were injured when the...
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...