RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
“The war in Ukraine will end in the coming months. That is my personal opinion. Everyone is out of strength, out of resources; everyone is tired. When I speak of...
Throughout October, the Russian military utilized Belarusian airspace while conducting attacks on Ukrainian territory. The first incursions took place on October 4–5, followed by another incident on October 8. At...
The Belarusian ambassador has presented his credentials to the Prime Minister of Afghanistan, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry announced. The ministry, however, made no mention of the fact that Mohammad Hassan...
Since mid-summer 2026, Estonian police have detained over 450 individuals who were in the country without legal authorization. The majority of those detained are from African and Asian nations, including...
MAIN NEWS
On November 5, the Russian Federation’s army attacked civilian and critical infrastructure in the Vinnytsia region. The strike caused damage to buildings and vehicles, and there are reports of injuries....
On November 5, Russian forces launched more than 30 attacks throughout the day across six districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, using drones, artillery, and an aerial bomb. Seven people were...
On the morning of November 4, Russian forces launched two strikes on Vilniansk in the Zaporizhzhia region, resulting in the deaths of two people. The Russian attack on the town...
On November 4, Russian forces carried out an airstrike on Sumy, employing guided aerial bombs. A series of explosions rang out across the city. The sound of air defense systems...
KILLING CIVILIANS
On the afternoon of November 4, Russian forces attacked civilian infrastructure in the Odesa District using strike drones. Two people—a 39-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man—were injured in the attack....
In Komyshuvakha, near Zaporizhzhia, police officers were helping people take cover from shelling when Russian forces launched a follow-up strike. Four police officers were killed on November 2 in Komyshuvakha,...
On the night of November 1, the Vinnytsia region was subjected to another massive attack by Russian forces. Russian strikes targeted the region’s energy infrastructure and civilian areas. Additionally, a...
In the Volyn region, one person was injured and infrastructure facilities were damaged due to impacts and falling debris from Russian drones. Over the course of the night and morning...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
Overnight into November 5, Russian forces attacked Dnipro with drones. One of the drones struck a garage cooperative, leaving a massive crater at the site. Surrounding the crater are crushed...
On the night of November 4, Russian forces launched a massive attack using “Shahed”-type drones against towns and villages in western Ukraine. An energy facility in the Ternopil region was...
On the afternoon of November 4, Russian drones attacked a private civilian enterprise in Zlatopil, in the southern part of the Kharkiv region. The facility was struck by two unmanned...
Overnight into November 3, Russia launched a combined missile and drone attack on the Vinnytsia region. The strike damaged critical infrastructure facilities, leading to power supply disruptions across the region....
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
The temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine received a critically low score—just -1 out of 100—in Freedom House’s annual “Freedom in the World 2026” report. The Russian regime continues to systematically...
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...
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...