The independent international commission of inquiry into violations in Ukraine under the UN Human Rights Council has published a report. It documents systematic attacks by Russian drones on civilians in the Kherson region. It also records strikes on ambulances and critical infrastructure. The Russian military is publicly distributing videos of such attacks and messages with explicit threats to civilians for moving in areas called «red zones».

The former deputy head of the Kherson occupation administration, detained by Ukrainian law enforcement officers, turned out to be a pensioner of the Security Service of Ukraine. He sued and continues to sue the Pension Fund of Ukraine regarding the recalculation and payment of pensions. By a decision of the Central District Court of Mykolaiv, he was sent to prison until December 19, 2024. Earlier, the Central Journalist Center wrote that 63-year-old Serhiy Rybachok, former deputy head of the Kherson occupation administration, and a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine, was detained, but this information turned out to be erroneous.

The Center for Investigative Journalism found out that this is 60-year-old Dmytro Tryhub, who turned out to be a friend and business partner of collaborator Serhiy Rybachok.

The report also states that prosecutors proved that in 2021 the man signed a contract to serve in the Russian armed forces. After the full-scale invasion of Russia, he entered the mainland territory of Ukraine as part of the army of the occupying power.

It is noted that since the beginning of the armed aggression, the entrepreneur, having pro-Russian views, voluntarily agreed to assist the occupation administration in implementing criminal decisions. After the seizure of the Melitopol Asphalt Concrete Plant, he became its head at the suggestion of the enemy and began to actively encourage the company's employees to support the occupiers and cooperate with them.

It is known that in September 2013, a former employee of a local enterprise that provides maintenance of military equipment of the Defence Forces, and now an employee of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, secretly filmed the movement of military equipment of the Armed Forces on his phone.

More than 1,634 children have been affected in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of 6 October 2023, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 505 children were killed and more than 1129 were injured of varying severity, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.

The Prosecutor General's Office, together with human rights lawyers, is preparing a war crimes dossier to be submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Russia of deliberately causing famine during the war against Ukraine, Ukrayinska Pravda reports citing The Guardian.

A judge from Luhansk region will be tried for high treason and public calls for a violent change of government, the Prosecutor General's Office reports. She is charged with public calls for violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order and seizure of state power, encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, and high treason.

In Kherson region, two local residents were involved in the organisation of a pseudo-referendum. They have been notified of suspicion, the Prosecutor General's Office reports. Such actions are punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to ten years with disqualification to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of ten to fifteen years and with or without confiscation of property.

On 18 September, the International Court of Justice in The Hague resumed hearings in the case of Ukraine's lawsuit against Russia for violation of the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in connection with Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine. These hearings will last until 27 September.