RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
Former fighters recounted that disobedience was punished by death, and in one unit, only one in ten survived. Kenyan citizens are being recruited into the Russian army under the guise...
Russia is ramping up recruitment in Latin America, luring foreigners with promises of well-paid work. One such case is that of Peruvian national Carlos Lenski Davila Vela, who ended up...
Recruiters from the Russian Ministry of Defense are calling on Thai nationals to join the Russian army; Russians living in Thailand have started encountering relevant advertisements on social media. The...
Russia has established a large-scale online network to recruit foreign nationals for service in its armed forces. The network utilizes Western digital platforms, technologies, and server infrastructure to identify potential...
MAIN NEWS
On September 28, Russian forces launched 724 strikes against 56 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. 34 wounded as a result of the Russian attacks. According to regional authorities, the occupiers carried...
On the night of September 29, Russia attacked Ukraine with two “Iskander-M”/S-400 ballistic missiles, one “Zircon”/”Onyx” anti-ship missile, and 152 drones. According to Kyiv rescue services, a strike on a...
Russian forces struck the central part of Sumy with four guided aerial bombs. One of the munitions hit a school building where classes were in session at the time. The...
Between the evening of September 28 and the morning of September 29, Russian troops carried out ten strikes on the Zhytomyr region. Russian forces launched massive attacks on industrial facilities...
KILLING CIVILIANS
Russian attack destroys homes and damages civilian infrastructure. Four people were killed and five others wounded in Russian strikes on the Zaporizhzhia district. Specifically, Russian forces attacked the settlement of Komyshuvakha....
On September 26, Russian forces struck Kharkiv and 21 other settlements in the region; two people were killed and eight others injured. In the village of Lebiazhe (Prolisne community), a...
On September 24, the Zhytomyr region was once again targeted by Russian forces. As a result of the attack—which began the previous day and continued into the morning—one person was...
On September 24, Russian forces attacked settlements in the Kherson region using conventional artillery and various types of drones. As of 5:30 PM, four people had been wounded as a...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
During a Russian overnight attack on the Odesa region on September 29, a workshop producing plastic tableware burned to the ground. Four people were injured in the attack. All the...
Russian forces attacked infrastructure in Odesa overnight and during the morning of September 29. According to the Odesa City Military Administration, cleanup and repair operations are underway at a high-rise...
On the night of September 29, Russian forces struck civilian infrastructure in the Lebedyn community of the Sumy region. The strikes damaged non-residential premises and caused fires at the sites....
Russian forces struck Odesa with a drone on the afternoon of September 28. The UAV destroyed part of a residential building. At least three people were injured in the attack,...
UKRAINIANS IN RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY
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....
In the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region, Russian security forces continue to use criminal prosecution as a tool to pressure local residents. The next person in the Russian case...
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
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...
A 12-year-old child died in the temporarily occupied Holoprystan community of the Kherson region. She needed medical care due to her high temperature, but there was no medical worker or...
GENEVA CONVENTION VIOLATIONS
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...
On the afternoon of September 17, Russians continued their terror campaign against Ukrainian cities. An ordinary passenger bus in Zaporizhzhia was targeted. Unfortunately, there were injuries. People were inside the...
On September 2, Russian troops executed two National Guard servicemen in the Donetsk region. The Prosecutor’s Office has launched a pre-trial investigation. Details of this latest war crime were released...