RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
North Korea has conducted two mysterious missile launches, which state media have unexpectedly kept quiet about. Experts suspect that Pyongyang is secretly testing modernized weapons for Russia. This dangerous upgrade...
In the new academic year, drone operations and tactical medicine training have been added to the “pre-conscription and medical training” program for Belarusian tenth-graders. This was announced by Belarusian Deputy...
Polish special services have detained a Russian citizen suspected of preparing the assassination of a US citizen of Ukrainian origin in Warsaw. According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the...
An explosion at a military factory in Bulgaria occurred on August 10 in the village of Belitsa. According to preliminary information, a truck caught fire and a fire broke out...
MAIN NEWS
Russian troops shelled Sumy region almost 60 times in a day on August 15. The Russians used mortars, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, FPV drones, other UAVs and guided aerial...
On August 13, the Russians struck the town of Izyum in Kharkiv region. According to the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleg Synegubov, four people were injured as...
As a result of the Russian attack on the logistics center in Kharkiv on August 1, millions of books were destroyed, including more than a million school textbooks that Ukrainian...
Russian military attacked four districts of Dnipropetrovsk region almost 60 times during the day on August 13, as a result of which four people were injured. The Russians used drones,...
KILLING CIVILIANS
The Russians attacked a civilian car in Sumy with a drone, killing the driver and wounding his wife. According to the report of the head of the regional military administration,...
New Russian strikes were recorded in settlements of Kharkiv region located near the line of combat contact on August 13. As a result of the shelling, one person was killed...
On the morning of August 12, Russian troops again attacked Kyiv region with strike drones. A fire broke out in warehouse buildings in the Brovary district as a result of...
On August 12, 2026, Russian troops attacked settlements in Kherson region with aircraft, artillery and drones of various types. As of 17:30, it was established that three civilians were killed...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
During August 15, Russian troops carried out 1,034 strikes on 55 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region. According to the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, police and the State Emergency Service, one person...
On August 15, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia region, resulting in one injured, damaged premises and agricultural equipment. According to the head of the regional military administration Ivan Fedorov, a Russian...
In Kharkiv, a recent Russian missile strike damaged the Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The church’s windows were broken, and the surrounding area...
As a result of a Russian missile strike on the territory of Sumy Region on August 16, the elevator complex of the Ukrlandfarming holding suffered significant damage, injuring an employee...
UKRAINIANS IN RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY
A resident of Kakhovka, Kherson region, Artur Didenko, born in 1990, was found guilty of “treason” by the “court” of Russia. According to the version of the Russian investigation, Didenko...
The so-called “Supreme Court of Crimea” has sentenced a resident of the temporarily occupied Bakhchysarai district to 15 years in prison for allegedly transferring funds for the needs of the...
A Russian court has sentenced a 58-year-old Ukrainian named Nikitenko, who lives in the village of Pryazovske in the Zaporizhzhia region, to 12 years in prison in a strict regime...
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don (RF) sentenced 45-year-old Ukrainian prisoner of war Artem Sheik to 18 years in prison on charges of “participation in a terrorist group and...
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
Russia has appropriated more than 34,000 real estate properties belonging to Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories, recognizing them as “ownerless”. Since 2024, the Russians have confiscated 34,002 real estate...
In July 2026, in the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region, Russia introduced a mechanism to recognize property in the apartments of Ukrainians as “ownerless”. Thus, the occupation administration created...
The Russian administration in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhia region has officially launched a mechanism for transferring land plots to participants in the so-called “special military operation”. The...
The Russians have partially lost control over the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region. Some villages have been left without Russian heads, and the Russian military is looking for...
GENEVA CONVENTION VIOLATIONS
On August 13, the Russian Federation carried out a targeted strike with a Shahed-type drone on the locomotive of a passenger train in the Odesa region. The attack killed the...
On August 12, Russian troops launched strikes on Balakliya in Kharkiv region. Local residents were injured. According to the State Emergency Service, the Russians attacked the city with missiles. The...
As a result of the night Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of August 11, a children’s hospital in Shevchenkivskyi district was damaged. More than 10 windows were blown...
In the village of Hrushivka, Dnipropetrovsk region, on August 10, Russian military personnel attacked a civilian car with an FPV drone, in which there were two children from the Novovorontsivska...