Ukraine Evidence HubVerified record of Russia's crimes in Ukraine
Updated 23 Oct 2026

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One place for the documented record: United Nations findings first, Ukrainian national data second, independent investigations third — always labelled, always dated.

Status · 23 Oct 2026

In the last 24 hours: three Russian aerial bombs on a residential area of Kramatorsk on 23 October killed one person and injured six, three of them children (regional prosecutor's office); strikes on Dnipro destroyed a private house, killing one person and injuring eight, with three more injured in Pidhorodne community (regional military administration, as of 18:30). Overnight Russia launched 176 drones, with hits at 19 locations (Air Force). The White House announced a US-brokered local ceasefire in occupied Oleshky from 29 October to let aid in and civilians out; the Kremlin confirmed it, saying the evacuation will take at least several days.

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Case file
Kyiv: an operating theatre in daylightKyiv and Kyiv region · 20–21 Oct 2026 · day and night
The 24-storey apartment block in Sviatoshynskyi district, Kyiv, after the drone strike, early morning of 21 Oct
The 24-storey apartment block in Sviatoshynskyi district, Kyiv, after the drone strike, early morning of 21 Oct. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) · 2026-10-21 · CC BY 4.0 · original ↗

6 killed · 2 medical facilities hit in daylight. A drone hit the operating theatre of the Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology, wounding a patient — the second strike on the institute. Three killed by a highway in Chabany, one at a petrol station, two in a 24-storey apartment block overnight.

Prime Minister; Kyiv mayor and city military administration; Kyiv regional prosecutor's office · Tier B · preliminary

Fact-check
Blind spots that are not thereRussia's Arria-formula meeting · UN Security Council · 14 Oct 2026

The UN records both sides — Russia lets it see only one. 75 of 134 Russian POWs held by Ukraine and 124 of 129 Ukrainian POWs released by Russia described ill-treatment. Nebenzia misquoted the Committee against Torture; none of the 14 other members backed the claims.

OHCHR, 29 Jun 2026 · CAT/C/UKR/CO/7 · UN Web TV · Tier A

Case file
Nova Vodolaha: a drone on a town parkKharkiv region · 19 Oct 2026 · afternoon
The central park of Nova Vodolaha after the drone strike, 19 Oct
The central park of Nova Vodolaha after the drone strike, 19 Oct. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) · 2026-10-19 · CC BY 4.0 · original ↗

6 killed, two of them children, girls aged 1 and 11 · 15 injured, seven of them children. A Geran-3 attack drone hit the central park while families were walking there. No military object has been named.

Kharkiv regional military administration; regional prosecutor's office · Tier B · preliminary

Case file
Oleshky: a town starved under occupation~1,700 people trapped · no food by road since 26 May · ceasefire due 29 Oct
Oleshky before the full-scale invasion: the central square, 2007
Oleshky before the full-scale invasion: the central square, 2007. Photo: Gottinight · 2007 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · original ↗

"People can't get out, food can't get in." Russia has held the town and every road into it since 2022; Ukraine drops food by drone, and a list of evacuees was agreed with Russia — 358 people verified for immediate evacuation, the ICRC ready. Russia confirmed nothing for five months; on 23 Oct the White House announced a local ceasefire from 29 October and the Kremlin confirmed it.

UN monitoring mission · Tier A; Ombudsman of Ukraine · Tier B; White House, Kremlin · 23 Oct

Fact-check
Oleshky: a blockade with no authorEight Russian statements, 21 Sep – 16 Oct 2026

From "hypocrisy" to "tragedy". Moscow now admits the crisis and blames Kyiv for blockading a town Russia holds. None of eight statements proposes the evacuation the UN, the ICRC and the Pope asked for.

Kremlin, MFA, Russian Mission to the UN · checked against UN, HRW, OSCE records

Case file
16–17 Oct 2026: Vinnytsia without power332 drones + ballistic, cruise and Kalibr missiles · 15+ power facilities attacked
Lutsk, 16 Oct: firefighters at a burning garage cooperative after the Russian attack
Lutsk, 16 Oct: firefighters at a burning garage cooperative after the Russian attack. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) · 2026-10-16 · CC BY 4.0 · original ↗

A city without electricity and water pumping. A damaged substation cut power to Vinnytsia; outages also in Lutsk, Rivne and Zhytomyr. No ballistic missile was reported intercepted.

Air Force; President of Ukraine; Vinnytsia city and regional authorities · Tier B · preliminary

Case file
14–15 Oct 2026: Lutsk, Kropyvnytskyi and beyond850+ attack drones in 33 hours · 17 killed in six regions
Fire after the strike on civilian buildings, 14 Oct
Fire after the strike on civilian buildings, 14 Oct. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) · 2026-10-14 · CC BY 4.0 · original ↗

A wholesale market in Lutsk: 6 killed. Almost 360 drones over Kirovohrad region in one night — 3 killed in Kropyvnytskyi. Russia's MoD named only a port in Izmail.

President of Ukraine; Air Force; regional administrations · Tier B · preliminary

Case file
Kyiv, 14 Oct 202639 ballistic missiles + 128 drones · all three CHP plants
Kyiv, Desnianskyi district: the residential block burning after the strike (SES Kyiv, night of 9–10 October)
Kyiv, Desnianskyi district: the residential block burning after the strike (SES Kyiv, night of 9–10 October). Photo: State Emergency Service, Kyiv · 10 Oct 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · original ↗

600,000 without electricity; 4 killed, 25 injured. Only 4 missiles were intercepted. Russia's MoD listed the heat-and-power plants by name as "military-industrial" — the conduct the ICC qualified as war crimes in 2024.

Air Force; Ukrenergo; SES · Tier B

UN on the record
Secretary-General, 7 Oct · Council briefers, 9 OctFifteen entries, 23 Sep – 19 Oct, each linked to the official record

"Strongly condemns the ongoing attacks on major Ukrainian cities" — the Secretary-General, 7 Oct. Two days later the Council heard: more than 100 civilians killed and 429 injured in one week (OHCHR). On 14 Oct the Deputy Spokesperson confirmed all three Kyiv heat-and-power plants attacked, ~600,000 without power and water.

Noon briefings; S/PV.10237; OHCHR · Tier A

Fact-check
Only military targetsNebenzia at the Security Council, 9 Oct 2026 · eight claims · seven-page dossier

"Only military facilities", air defence "in residential areas", "provocations and hoaxes", energy "used for military production" — set against the UN's count for that week (more than 100 civilians killed), Russia's own Ministry of Defence target list naming Pryluky, and the ICC warrants for the earlier energy campaign.

Russian Mission text, 9 Oct 2026 · SC/16472 · HRMMU, 15 Oct 2026 · ICC · Tier A

Case file
Kharkiv, 2–12 Oct 2026Five strikes on residential districts in eleven days
Kharkiv: firefighters at the residential block whose entrance section collapsed, 12 October
Kharkiv: firefighters at the residential block whose entrance section collapsed, 12 October. Photo: State Emergency Service, Kharkiv region · 12 Oct 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · original ↗

16 killed in five strikes (derived). Guided bombs on 2 Oct (2 killed), 5 Oct (6 killed, 59 injured) and 11 Oct; a missile on a grocery store in Pisochyn (3 killed, incl. a 16-year-old); ~10 Banderol missiles on 12 Oct (4 killed, 41 injured, entrance section collapsed).

State Emergency Service; regional administration · Tier B

Pressure on Russia

Sanctions
27,591 under Russia-related sanctionsNine official lists, counted once · updated daily

16,432 people and companies are listed by Ukraine but not by the European Union. Search the registers, see which makers of the weapons in our case files are still off some lists, and what has been lifted.

Official lists via OpenSanctions · · Tier A

The cost of the war for Russia
276,000 soldiers killed, confirmed by namePeople, equipment, military assets, economy

Ukraine's General Staff counts 1,574,620 personnel losses; Oryx has photographed 24,192 pieces of lost equipment. Russia's budget deficit for January–September 2026: 5.2 trillion roubles.

General Staff of Ukraine; Mediazona/BBC; Oryx; Ministry of Finance of Russia · Tier B / C

Front & occupation

Open the map

New: the front line and the occupation on one map — 117,112 km² occupied (19.4% of Ukraine, Tier C, derived), 0 of 16 Russian capture claims since 1 October confirmed, and every strike measured by its distance from the front. Open the map →

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Patterns, not incidents

Five files that run across the whole war. Each opens with its UN-verified figure, then the national figure, then the accountability step already taken. These are the pages for the question "what is the bigger picture".

EnergyStrikes on the electricity and heat system · since Oct 2022
4ICC warrants for the 2022–23 energy campaign A · ICC ↗
~70%of thermal generation capacity lost by mid-2025 B · Ministry of Energy ↗

Established. ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II found reasonable grounds that strikes on electricity infrastructure, Oct 2022 – Mar 2023, were war crimes and crimes against humanity (warrants for Kobylash, Sokolov, 5 Mar 2024; Shoigu, Gerasimov, 24 Jun 2024). The Commission of Inquiry reached the same conclusion on the winter 2022–23 campaign (A/HRC/52/62).

Now. Every major thermal and hydro plant has been hit at least once (Ministry of Energy, 2025). Fourth winter campaign opened 29–30 Sep 2026; Kyiv dark on 8 Oct.

Ask. Air-defence and transformer deliveries before December; name the energy campaign as a pattern in national statements.

ICC, 5 Mar and 24 Jun 2024; COI A/HRC/52/62; Ministry of Energy of Ukraine; KSE damage assessment (energy sector, 2025) · Tier A / B / C

Pattern file · one-pager · v1, 14 Oct 2026PDF
ChildrenDeportation and forced transfer · since Feb 2022
20,651recorded cases of deportation or forced transfer B · childrenofwar.gov.ua ↗
2,665returned to Ukraine as of 7 Oct 2026 B · Bring Kids Back UA ↗

Established. ICC warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova (17 Mar 2023) for unlawful deportation and transfer of children. The Commission of Inquiry found that transfers violated IHL and amounted to a war crime (A/HRC/52/62, 2023; reiterated 2024–25).

Now. Returns run through third-country mediation (Qatar, Vatican, UAE); identification of children relocated inside Russia remains the bottleneck. Russian "re-education" and adoption decrees documented by Yale HRL.

Ask. Join the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children; raise the ICC warrants whenever Russia speaks of "evacuation".

Ombudsman of Ukraine / childrenofwar.gov.ua, 7 Oct 2026; Bring Kids Back UA; ICC; COI; Yale HRL · Tier A / B / C

Pattern file · one-pager · v1, 14 Oct 2026PDF
PrisonersExecution and torture of POWs and detained civilians
129Ukrainian POWs executed after capture, documented by OHCHR A · OHCHR ↗
9,048Ukrainians returned from captivity since 2022 B · Coordination HQ ↗

Established. OHCHR interviews with released POWs: 95% report torture or ill-treatment; 48 died in custody. The Commission of Inquiry found torture of POWs and civilians to be systematic and a crime against humanity (A/79/549, Oct 2024).

Now. Over 16,000 civilians recorded as detained by Russia; more than 1,000 held since 2022. Olenivka (29 Jul 2022) still without an international investigation on site.

Ask. Demand ICRC access to all places of detention; support the all-for-all exchange and the return of civilian detainees as a separate track.

OHCHR briefing, 10 Aug 2026; COI A/79/549; Coordination HQ for the Treatment of POWs, Oct 2026 · Tier A / B

Pattern file · one-pager · v1, 14 Oct 2026PDF
Sexual violenceConflict-related sexual violence · 2022–2026
1,004cases documented by OHCHR, 89% attributed to Russian authorities A · OHCHR ↗
401cases registered by prosecutors · 116 suspects · 19 verdicts B · Prosecutor General ↗

Established. OHCHR report of 18 Sep 2026: most victims are men in detention (electric shocks to the genitals, beatings, threats); women and children mainly under occupation. The Commission of Inquiry found rape by Russian forces to be a war crime (A/77/533).

Now. In May 2026 the Secretary-General listed Russian armed and security forces for the first time in the annex of his report on conflict-related sexual violence.

Ask. Keep the listing until perpetrators are held to account; demand OHCHR and ICRC access to all places of detention; no amnesty for sexual violence.

OHCHR, 18 Sep 2026; Secretary-General, May 2026; COI A/77/533, A/79/549; Prosecutor General, 19 Jun 2026 · Tier A / B

Pattern file · one-pager · v1, 15 Oct 2026PDF
Nuclear safetyOccupied Zaporizhzhia plant, Chornobyl, the grid
26complete losses of off-site power at the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant since 2022 A · IAEA ↗
99states voted for GA resolution 78/316: demilitarise the plant, return it to Ukraine A · A/RES/78/316 ↗

Established. Seized under fire on 4 Mar 2022; the latest blackout kept the plant on diesel for 18 days (20 Aug – 7 Sep 2026). A drone breached the Chornobyl New Safe Confinement on 14 Feb 2025; the IAEA found it lost its confinement function.

Now. Russia has issued "licences" for units 1 and 2 to Rosatom; strikes on substations cut power to nuclear sites in every winter campaign.

Ask. Demilitarisation and return of the plant to Ukraine (78/316); no recognition of Russian "licences"; no strikes on the grid that nuclear sites depend on.

IAEA Updates 362–364 (Aug–Sep 2026); A/RES/78/316 (11 Jul 2024); World Nuclear Association · Tier A / C

Pattern file · one-pager · v1, 15 Oct 2026PDF

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