Occupation police in Crimea issue warning to rights defender Zudiyeva
In temporarily occupied Crimea, police have issued a "warning against violating the law" to journalist and human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva.
18 October 2025
In temporarily occupied Crimea, police have issued a "warning against violating the law" to journalist and human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva.
A 29-year-old veteran of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a 34-year-old National Guard serviceman have been brought home with the coordination of Military Ombudsman Olha Kobylynska (Reshetylova).
Finnish President Alexander Stubb stated that Finland would never recognize the occupied Crimean Peninsula, nor Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as part of Russia.
After losing around 700 spies operating under diplomatic cover, Russia has intensified efforts to recruit “single-use” civilian agents in European countries.
In the Kherson region, a 20-year-old woman was injured as a result of explosives being dropped from a UAV, and she was hospitalized.
Russia is holding at least 38 women from the temporarily occupied Crimea in pre-trial detention centers and colonies on political grounds.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Russian forces are intensifying filtration measures, searching for residents who do not have Russian passports.
17 October 2025
Ukraine's Defense Forces have destroyed a Russian BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher system that for a long time had been shelling the Mykolaiv region.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have carried out new precision strikes on Russia’s fuel and energy infrastructure facilities and military targets in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Two fires were recorded at an oil depot in the village of Gvardeyskoye in the temporarily occupied Crimea after a drone attack.
Russia is expanding the Engels-2 air base — the main hub of strategic aviation from which aircraft-carriers launch strikes on Ukraine.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the information about the Russian Armed Forces shooting down their Su-30SM fighter jet.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, Russians, repelling attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, probably shot down their own plane.
Russian troops shelled the center of Kherson at night, damaging residential buildings and shops, but no people were injured.
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down or jammed 35 out of 70 Russian drones launched since the evening of October 16.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, drones attacked the settlement of Hvardiiske, setting an oil depot on fire. Preliminary reports indicate a hit on an ammunition warehouse.
In the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol, which is under Russian army control, there have been reports of the invaders redeploying elite units of the FSB special forces and marine infantry from the annexed Crimea.
16 October 2025
Ukrainian forces struck the Saratov oil refinery on the night of October 15-16.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Olha Reshetylova (Kobylynska) as Ukraine’s Military Ombudsman.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russians used more than 300 drones and 37 missiles, including a significant number of ballistic missiles, last night, and also spoke about the enemy's double terror – repeated strikes and cluster munitions.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has strongly condemned mass searches conducted by Russian occupation security forces in the homes of Crimean Tatars in several districts of Crimea.
As a result of drone attacks targeting energy facilities in Russia’s Volgograd region overnight on October 15–16, a fire broke out at an electrical substation.
The UNESCO Executive Board has adopted a decision on actions and an emergency assistance program for Ukraine.
15 October 2025
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed that the Morskoy Oil Terminal enterprise in the temporarily occupied city of Feodosia was struck again during the night of October 13.
Russian forces are training new assault groups at training centers and ranges located in the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to intensify attacks in the Orikhiv sector.
14 October 2025
In Feodosia, in temporarily occupied Crimea, a fire at an oil depot hit by Ukrainian drones on the night of October 12-13 has been raging for more than one-and-a-half days.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 69 out of 96 Russian drones.
Training for military chaplains is conducted at the Chaplain Training Center of the Postgraduate Education Faculty of the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, as well as at military training centers in Germany and the United Kingdom.
On the southern front, Ukrainian drone operators struck a quad bike and a boat belonging to Russian invaders.
13 October 2025
A 20-year-old whom the local authorities were trying to force into serving in the Russian army has been removed from currently occupied Crimea as part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative.