RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has ordered a snap inspection of the country’s armed forces’ combat readiness amid the visit of US Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow. Secretary...
In the Sumy region, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured a Honduran citizen who fought as part of the Russian army. Citizens of this country had not previously...
Belarus is actively recruiting citizens to the ranks of the Russian army. A website has been launched in the country, where men aged 18 to 58 are offered to sign...
Ghana accused Russia of “illegally recruiting” Ghanaians to fight in Ukraine. Following talks in Moscow, Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa announced that his counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had agreed to...
MAIN NEWS
During the day of August 27, Dnipropetrovsk region suffered over 40 attacks. Russians struck four districts, two people were killed, and one was injured. In Nikopol district, Russians struck with...
More than two dozen people were injured as a result of the Russian shelling on August 25. In total, 24 people were injured as a result of the bombing in...
On August 24, at around 10:30, the Russian army fired on Komyshany near Kherson. Three wounded were taken to the hospital. A 75-year-old man and two women, aged 76 and...
In Dnipropetrovsk region, one person was killed and seven others were injured as a result of Russian attacks on August 24. During the day, Russian troops attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region...
KILLING CIVILIANS
On the afternoon of August 25, the Russians attacked Chernihiv and the region with drones. It is previously known about three wounded people: a 55-year-old woman and two men, aged...
In Kherson region, one person died and nine more civilians were injured during the day due to Russian shelling. According to the investigation, on August 25, 2026, the Russian military...
A Russian FPV drone attacked Slatyne, killing two local residents. In Kharkiv, three people suffered acute stress reactions after the Russian strike, and six private houses and five cars were...
On August 24, at around 12:40, the Russian military struck residential areas of Kherson with a drone. An 11-year-old boy was injured as a result of the attack. According to...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
On August 26, Russian troops carried out an attack with a guided air bomb on the Kherson CHP, which is the main source of heat supply for the city. This...
On August 26, Russian troops carried out two strikes, previously with drones of the “Geran” type, on the center in Lozova, Kharkiv region. It is previously known about 10 wounded....
Residents of the Pishchanska community and the Orlivschanska starostyn district were urged to evacuate due to the dangerous situation. Residents are asked to remain calm and follow the instructions of...
Late in the evening of August 24, Russia hit the Dnipro with two “Banderol” drone missiles. Explosions were heard, after which a large fire broke out. There is a hit...
UKRAINIANS IN RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY
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....
In the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region, Russian security forces continue to use criminal prosecution as a tool to pressure local residents. The next person in the Russian case...
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...
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
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...
A 12-year-old child died in the temporarily occupied Holoprystan community of the Kherson region. She needed medical care due to her high temperature, but there was no medical worker or...
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...
GENEVA CONVENTION VIOLATIONS
In Zaporizhzhia, for the second time in a week, drones of the Russian army attacked an energy worker’s facility during restoration work. According to the head of the joint-stock company...
On the afternoon of August 24, Russian troops struck Chernihiv. The strike hit a high-rise building. A fire broke out at the site of the strike. Rescue work is currently...
On August 23, a Russian strike drone hit the locomotive of a passenger train on the Zhytomyr-Odesa route in the Odesa region. Before the attack, the railway monitoring team announced...
On August 22 at 15:15, Russian troops launched a drone strike on civilian residents on the Zolochiv-Dergachi highway. Two people were injured as a result of the attack: a 62-year-old...