1/2 GRC hosted an event bringing together Ukrainian authorities, international partners, civil society organisations and survivors to mark the adoption of Ukraine’s new Instruction for the pre-trial investigation of CRSV and discuss its implementation.

Several children were killed and injured in Ukraine yesterday. In Nova Vodolaha in the Kharkiv region, a drone launched by Russian armed forces struck a park, killing 6 civilians, including 2 girls, and injuring 15, including 7 children, according to Ukrainian authorities. The strike occurred in the afternoon when the park was full of families. The previous night in Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukrainian authorities said a Russian attack killed a mother of two children and injured 21 people, including 8 children. We verified that from July to September 2026 conflict-related violence in Ukraine killed at least 52 children and injured 407. This was the highest number of children killed in any three-month period since late 2022. Read more in our updates on civilian harm in Ukraine: ukraine.ohchr.org/en/reports…

Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to destroy healthcare facilities across the country, putting patients and medical staff at risk. As of 1 October 2026, 2,698 facilities across 849 healthcare institutions have been confirmed damaged or destroyed. From frontline communities to regions far from the fighting, people are losing access to essential medical care. Hospitals are places where lives should be saved, not put at risk by Russian attacks.

1/2 GRC invites Ukrainian civil society practitioners to apply for a specialised training on child-sensitive and trauma-informed documentation of crimes against and affecting children. 📅 23–27 November, Western Ukraine. 🔗 Apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/P6ZG…

1/4 The @gp_ukraine, @ServiceSsu, and @mvs_ua, on behalf of the @NPU_GOV_UA, have signed a new Instruction for the pre-trial investigation of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).

1/2 Global Rights Compliance (GRC) hosted a Skill-Sharing Workshop on child-friendly documentation and justice for children affected by conflict-related violence in Ukraine.

Russian occupation policies have contributed to a sharp decline in an already-challenging humanitarian situation in the Oleshky area since December 2025. Oleshky’s location directly on the Dnipro River frontline has exposed its residents to constant drone and artillery strikes, and the co-placement of Russian military personnel and equipment with civilian infrastructure has undoubtedly complicated Ukrainian strike operations against military targets on the left bank. The Russian occupation administration has continuously refused to take steps to ensure the safety or wellbeing of residents in the face of these military threats, however, and stopped the delivery of food and other critical supplies into Oleshky in late December 2025 by citing the threat of Ukrainian drone strikes. Residents reported hunting for food and noted that there were cases of deaths due to starvation, freezing, or lack of medical care as of March 2026. Ukrainian sources reported that Oleshky’s occupation leadership fled the town for Skadovsk (south of Oleshky, deeper in the rear of occupied Kherson Oblast) in March, abandoning and isolating local residents. The roads out of Oleshky have become so dangerous due to drone and artillery strikes and unexploded mines, including ordnance that Russian forces reportedly retroactively laid to enforce the effective blockade of the area, that egress from the town is effectively impossible. Up to three to four thousand civilians, including children, remain within Oleshky itself as of September 2026. UN and Ukrainian estimates place the population of the wider area around Oleshky and Hola Prystan at 6,000.

1/2 A new op-ed by Elise Lauriot Prevost, Nadiia Vaskivska and Anastasiia Vorobiova examines Russia’s systematic use of starvation against civilians in occupied Oleshky and the international humanitarian law violations arising from the blockade.

At the request of @BringKidsBackUA, an ICJI interim report concludes the campaign of indoctrination & militarization of Ukrainian children by Russian authorities violates various aspects of international humanitarian, human rights & criminal law. More👇 law.georgetown.edu/icji/blog…

1/2 Global Rights Compliance (GRC) is pleased to participate in the side event “Domestic War Crimes Adjudication in Ukraine: A Driver of International Law and Justice”, organised by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 5 October 2026.

1/2 In a recent @thetimes feature, @TomAWatling highlighted how GRC’s Mobile Justice Teams work with regional prosecutors across Ukraine to strengthen investigations and accountability for international crimes, with Sumy region as a key example of this cooperation.

1/2 @WayneJordash KC, President of Global Rights Compliance (GRC), participated in the 10th Kharkiv International Legal Forum, speaking during the panel “Criminal Justice in Wartime”.

🕯️Today we honour the memory of the victims of the Babyn Yar tragedy. Between 1941 and 1943, tens of thousands of people were murdered here, including almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv. We remember every life cut short by Nazi terror. #BabynYarMemorialDay

Important message from President of the European Court of Human Rights Mattias Guyomar at #PACE today: ensuring Russia’s accountability remains a top priority of the Court. Five inter-State cases against Russia and around 5,700 individual applications, the vast majority linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine, remain before the Court. Just last week, the Court also held a public hearing in the case concerning Ukrainian children. The President was unequivocal: “All this crucial work on ensuring Russia’s accountability will continue.” The European human rights system remains an essential pillar of accountability, justice and protection for the victims of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Humanitarian Coordinator @matzschmale condemns Russian Armed Forces attacks in #Donetsk Region that caused casualties & damaged facilities of @charity_aos & @MissionProliska. Violence against aid personnel, assets&facilities rose by nearly 30% in July–Aug compared with May–June.

1/3 Global Rights Compliance (GRC) is pleased to participate in the 10th Kharkiv International Legal Forum, taking place from 21–25 September 2026 at @nlu_edu_ua.