RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
At least 2,982 people from 37 African countries have been recruited into the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces. So far, about 486 people have been killed According to a...
The Russian Federation has launched one of the largest hybrid operations outside of Ukraine against Chisinau. The New York Times has published a detailed investigation into Russia’s interference in Moldova’s...
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...
MAIN NEWS
During the day of August 17, Russian troops attacked four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 80 times with drones, artillery and aerial bombs. As a result of the...
On the night of August 16, Russian troops carried out another attack on Kyiv. The capital was hit by ballistic missiles. A series of explosions rang out in the city....
On August 16, Russia struck Kyiv region again – this time the Brovary district came under attack, where civilians were injured, and several private households were destroyed. As a result...
On the night of August 16, the Russian army struck Sloviansk with high-explosive air bombs: they hit the residential sector of the city and caused fires. No one was injured....
KILLING CIVILIANS
Five civilians were injured in Russian attacks on settlements in Donetsk region on August 16. Russians attacked Mykolaivka and Rayhorodk with drones, and another woman was injured in Starovarvarivka. The...
The number of victims as a result of the Russian attack on Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi on the night of August 16 has increased to two people. Another victim sought medical help. As...
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...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
On the night of August 17, the Russian Federation attacked the port infrastructure of the Odesa region. In the Izmail district, a civilian ship flying the flag of Togo was...
On August 17, at about 16:05, a Russian drone attacked civilian infrastructure in Zlatopol, Kharkiv region. Two people were injured as a result of the strike. One of the injured...
On the morning of August 17, Russian troops attacked an agricultural enterprise in Kolomak, Kharkiv region, with a drone. As a result of the strike, a warehouse building caught fire....
On the morning of August 17, Russian troops massively attacked a DTEK mine in the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones, killing a 52-year-old worker and injuring another man. The strike significantly...
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
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians carried out five attacks on rescuers. As a result of these attacks, a depot and three fire engines were damaged. In particular, in the...
On August 13, Russian troops in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region repeatedly attacked rescuers while extinguishing a fire that had broken out as a result of previous shelling....
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...