Russian Occupation Update, April 9, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) Russia continues to publish the profiles of deported Ukrainian children on Russian adoption databases. The Chechen Republic may be facilitating the deportation of Ukrainian children under the guise of medical necessity. Russian federal security agencies and youth military-patriotic organizations held a tactical training camp to prepare Ukrainian youth for service in the Russian military and security apparatus. Russian occupation officials continue efforts to seize, nationalize, and redistribute residential and commercial properties in occupied Ukraine. Russian authorities are escalating systematic persecutions against women in occupied Crimea. Russia’s majority state-owned banks continue to consolidate their ownership of banking services and means of everyday exchange in occupied Ukraine. Russian officials continue to pursue housing projects en masse in occupied Ukraine, likely in part to support efforts to increase the population of occupied areas with resettled Russian citizens from Russia. – Russian Occupation Update, April 9, 2026 | ISW