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08 February 2023
Russian prisoners are forced to join the ranks of the Wagner Group, being threatened with new criminal charges. Recruitment is also ongoing in some Russian pre-trial detention centers.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said that the Kremlin could strike a new blow in the northeastern part of Kharkiv region or the southern part of Zaporizhzhia region.
The crew of a portable anti-aircraft missile system of Ukraine’s National Guard operational brigade downed a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter on the outskirts of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, service members of the State Border Guard Service and Defense Forces of Ukraine destroyed an enemy MAVIC3 drone with the help of an anti-drone gun.
In Ukraine, 337 children are considered missing due to the Russian armed aggression.
Since Russia withdrew its forces from the west bank of the Dnipro in November 2022, fighting and reconnaissance has continued on the complex network of islands and waterways that make up the Dnipro delta.
Russian forces shelled six communities in Donetsk region over the past day, damaging residential buildings.
As a result of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression, 461 children were killed and 920 more were injured in Ukraine.
On Wednesday morning, the Russian army shelled the coastal strip and water area of the Ochakiv community, as well as the Kutsurub community in Mykolaiv region.
On the night of February 8, 2023, Russian projectiles hit Central Park in the city of Kharkiv.
Russia has already lost about 134,100 troops in Ukraine (+910 over the past day).
Two civilians have been injured in Russia’s shelling of the Donetsk region over the past day.
Last night Russian troops were again shelling the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district.
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled attacks by Russian invaders near 22 settlements in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Russian troops have launched a missile attack on the city of Kharkiv. Enemy projectiles hit the central part of the city.
07 February 2023
Poland has announced its intention to train two battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces every month.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said that Leopard 2A6 main battles tanks that Germany earlier pledged to provide to Ukraine will be delivered to the country in late March.
Ukraine does not launch strikes on Russian territory, but uses the weapons provided by its partners for the defense and de-occupation of its regions and the destruction of enemy depots.
The Ukrainian authorities are working on all enemy scenarios and are strengthening the state along its entire perimeter.
Ukraine will receive about 80 Leopard 1 tanks by the end of the year.
The German government has issued licenses to the country's defense companies to export up to 178 Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine.
The Air Force of Ukraine launched seven strikes on the areas of concentration of Russian military, as well as two strikes on the positions of their anti-aircraft missile systems.
Lithuania sent Ukraine dozens of L-70 anti-aircraft guns with ammunition and trained Ukrainian instructors in handling these weapons.
Germany began testing the RCH155 artillery installation, first ordered by Ukraine.
In the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, two soldiers who snubbed the order to fight against Ukraine were sentenced to a prison term.
Five loud explosions rang out in the Prymorskyi district of temporarily occupied Mariupol.
Ukraine has domestically produced weapons that can be used to destroy targets within the territory of the Russian Federation.
Russian troops are attempting to push through the defense of Ukrainian forces in the Lyman and Bakhmut directions but suffering huge losses.
The servicemen of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service have shot down Russia’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut.
The police have evacuated a family with two children from the Donetsk region’s Vuhledar, which is under continuous enemy fire now. One child is remaining in the city.