RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
Nine foreign nationals have been detained in South Africa on suspicion of attempting to leave the country to participate in combat operations. They are suspected of violating South African laws...
In 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine, including from the territory of Belarus, and a year later, Lukashenko permitted the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons within the country. According to data...
The Belarusian dictator aims to preserve his own power, avoid the direct involvement of the Belarusian army in combat operations, and secure the lifting of Western sanctions. Minsk is attempting...
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has cast doubt on the results of the 2003 referendum on EU accession, suggesting that the vote count may have been “tampered with.” He provided...
MAIN NEWS
On the evening of November 9, Russian forces attacked the Poltava region using drones. In the city of Poltava, a drone struck the grounds of a private enterprise. The blast...
Throughout the day on November 9, Russian troops launched relentless attacks on the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Samara districts. Regrettably, a pensioner sustained injuries. Russian forces targeted peaceful settlements in the...
On November 9, the Russian army attacked the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv with a drone, leaving a child and two other civilians severely wounded. A child was injured as a...
On the evening of November 7, Russian forces launched a drone attack on Khmelnytskyi, targeting residential areas of the city. One person sustained injuries; private homes were damaged, and windows...
KILLING CIVILIANS
On November 9, Russian forces launched a drone attack on the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region. An 82-year-old woman was killed in the strike, and three others sustained injuries....
On the afternoon of November 9, the Russian army attacked food warehouses in Odesa, resulting in the deaths of three people. According to Oleh Kiper, Head of the Odesa Regional...
During a massive attack on November 7, Russian forces struck energy infrastructure in the Kyiv region. Substations that facilitate the transmission of electricity from the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear power...
Two police officers from the Zaporizhzhia region, who sustained severe injuries in a Russian drone strike near Komyshuvakha, have died in the hospital. They were Major Oleh Dubetskyi, head of...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
Since early morning on November 10, Russian forces have been attacking Zaporizhzhia using various types of weaponry. The Oleksandrivskyi district was hit first, where drones struck a residential area, sparking...
According to a statement by Vadym Filashkin, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, on November 10, a Russian “Molniya” (Lightning) type drone struck the roof of one of the...
On November 9, Russian forces attacked settlements in the Donetsk region 18 times. Sloviansk, in particular, was subjected to six shelling incidents, and a building at the Sviatohirsk Lavra was...
A Russian missile that struck near a residential building in the capital’s Solomianskyi district partially destroyed the facade of a five-story apartment block. The incident occurred overnight into November 7....
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
Russia is allocating billions of rubles to subsidize the rail transport of agricultural products from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Under the guise of state support for carriers, the...
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...
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...