RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
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...
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...
MAIN NEWS
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...
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...
KILLING CIVILIANS
According to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Russia struck a market in the town of Lozova, Kharkiv Region, killing two women, aged 50 and 60. Another...
On the evening of October 22, the Russian occupation army launched another attack on Zaporizhzhia, striking a residential area of the city. According to Mykhailo Semikin, an official with the...
Nine residents of the Zhytomyr community were injured—including two children—following a Russian drone strike on a private home on October 22. According to Vitaliy Bunechko, head of the Zhytomyr Regional...
On the morning of October 21, a Russian jet-powered drone struck an industrial facility in Chernihiv. A few hours later, Russian forces launched a second strike on the same site....
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
On October 22, Russian forces targeted the capital, hitting the railway, the metro system, a home improvement hypermarket, postal and office facilities, and an ambulance station. In one of Kyiv’s...
In Kyiv’s Pecherskyi District, building facades were damaged and windows shattered following a ballistic missile attack on the night of October 22. Emergency services are currently working at the scene....
Agriculture in the liberated territories of the Kherson region has suffered severe losses due to the war. More than 250 grain storage facilities have been completely destroyed, and not a...
On the night of October 21, Russian forces attacked an industrial facility in the Lviv district. Two employees were injured in the strike, and drone debris damaged a private home...
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 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...
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...