War update: 121 combat clashes on front line, enemy uses nearly 10,000 kamikaze drones
According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Facebook regarding the situation as of 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 8.
The enemy launched three missile strikes using 33 missiles, 86 air strikes, dropping 254 guided aerial bombs. In addition, the Russian army used 9,837 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,514 shellings, including 49 from multiple launch rocket systems.
The Russians carried out air strikes in the areas of Pysantsi, Kolomyitsi, Pokrovske, Chornenkove, Pidhavrylivka, Lisne, Svitla Dolyna, Zelenaa Dibrova, Kopani, Charivne, Rivne, Huliaipilske, Veselianka, and Malokaterynivka.
The Air Force, Rocket Forces, and Artillery of the Defense Forces struck eleven areas of concentration of manpower and equipment, two enemy UAV control points, and an electronic warfare system.
In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, the Russians carried out 139 shellings, four of them with MLRS, and three air strikes using eight guided aerial bombs.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, the enemy attempted five times to break through the defensive lines in the areas of Hrafske, Vilcha, Zybyne, Pishchane, and Vovchansk.
In the Kupiansk sector, the enemy attacked four times in the areas of Pishchane, Kurylivka, Kivsharivka, and Novoosynove.
In the Lyman sector, Russian invaders attacked six times in the areas of Serednie, Novyi Myr, and Drobysheve.
In the Sloviansk sector, the Defense Forces stopped 12 attempts by the invaders to advance in the areas of Platonivka, Rai-Oleksandrivka, Kalenyky, Dronivka, Zakitne, Riznykivka, and Pazeno.
In the Kramatorsk sector, the Russians attacked toward Minkivka.
In the Kostiantynivka sector, the enemy carried out 15 attacks near Kostiantynivka, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Illinivka, Rusyn Yar, Sofiivka, and Novopavlivka.
In the Pokrovsk sector, Ukrainian defenders repelled 20 aggressor assaults in the areas of Novyi Donbas, Rodynske, Novooleksandrivka, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novomykolaivka, Novopidhorodne, Nykanorivka, Shevchenko, Pokrovsk, and Hryshyne.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, the enemy attacked four times in the areas of Verbove, Novohryhorivka, and Vorone.
In the Huliaipole sector, the invaders carried out 12 attacks in the areas of Dobropillia, Zaliznychne, Varvarivka, Myrne, and Zelene.
In the Orikhiv sector, the Russians did not carry out any attacks.
No enemy assault operations were recorded in the Prydniprovske sector.
No signs of enemy offensive group formations were detected in the Volyn and Polissia sectors.
As reported by Ukrinform, the total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to March 8, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,273,290 soldiers.
