RUSSIAN INFLUENCE OBSERVATORY
Lithuania will send a note to Belarus after a drone flew into Lithuanian airspace at night and was shot down by Italian fighter jets, the head of the country’s Foreign...
The drone shot down on September 15 over Lithuania was carrying an explosive charge, the country’s Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas reported. “Operation “Shield” has been completed. According to the final...
Recent Russian strikes on Ukraine’s western regions were facilitated from Belarusian territory, where signal repeaters were likely reactivated to support the guidance of Russian drones and missiles. According to Andrii...
On the Zaporizhzhia front, soldiers from the infantry battalion of the 1st Separate Assault Regiment captured a Yemeni national who had been fighting for Russian forces. This was reported by...
MAIN NEWS
The Russian side has not confirmed its readiness to conduct a humanitarian evacuation from the temporarily occupied town of Oleshky in the Kherson region. More than 6,000 civilians, including approximately...
On the morning of September 17, during a massive Russian attack on the Odesa region, a drone violated Moldovan airspace. The drone remained over the country’s territory for about two...
Overnight into September 17, Kyiv came under attack by drones and missiles. Residential and non-residential buildings, office premises, and warehouses were damaged across several districts of the capital. The number...
Russian strikes on the region’s settlements damaged homes and infrastructure, and fires broke out at the attack sites. Throughout the day on September 17, Russian forces launched over 40 attacks...
KILLING CIVILIANS
Six people, including a 4-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy, were injured in a Russian attack on Odesa overnight on September 17. Cleanup operations are underway in the city, and...
A man was killed in Odesa during another Russian attack on September 16. The incident occurred in an area where the resulting explosion damaged three garages and two passenger cars....
Rescue workers in Sumy operated at the sites of the airstrikes, which resulted in one fatality and nine injuries. On September 16, Russian forces struck the city with guided aerial...
On September 16, at approximately 14:10, guided aerial bomb strikes were recorded in the Kovpakivskyi and Zarichnyi districts of the city. The strikes destroyed two residential houses and damaged over...
DESTRUCTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE
Russian forces have destroyed a 36.6 MW power generation facility in the Sumy region belonging to a member of the Association of Distributed and Maneuverable Generation Entities. The facility had...
On September 15, a fire broke out at a poultry farm in the Odesa region following another Russian strike; the flames engulfed the roof, which was equipped with solar panels....
A Russian drone has destroyed a warehouse belonging to the Czech humanitarian organization Koridor UA in Mykolaiv. The building burned down, and the losses amount to millions of crowns. This...
A railway infrastructure facility in the Vinnytsia region was damaged as a result of a Russian attack. Five residential houses also sustained damage; there are currently no reports of casualties....
UKRAINIANS IN RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY
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...
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...
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
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...
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...
GENEVA CONVENTION VIOLATIONS
On September 2, Russian troops executed two National Guard servicemen in the Donetsk region. The Prosecutor’s Office has launched a pre-trial investigation. Details of this latest war crime were released...
On September 9, at 10:00, Russian troops attacked a passenger train in Kharkiv region with a “Shahed”. Russia continues to strike at railway infrastructure and rolling stock of Ukrzaliznytsia. At...
On the afternoon of September 8, in Kharkiv region, a Russian drone attacked a truck of the humanitarian mission “Proliska”, which was transporting insulation kits from the UN Refugee Agency...
At noon on September 5, Russian troops attacked a passenger train heading to Kherson with several attack drones. The attack damaged two locomotives and injured a railway worker. The Russians...