Drone operator Kateryna Troian killed in action
Kateryna Troian, an FPV drone operator and service member of Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade, was killed during a combat mission in the Pokrovsk sector.
08 June 2025
Kateryna Troian, an FPV drone operator and service member of Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade, was killed during a combat mission in the Pokrovsk sector.
Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has invited U.S. President Donald Trump to spend a week in his house to witness firsthand what is happening in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has received a report from Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi on the battlefield situation, noting that the situation in certain frontline sectors is very challenging, but everything depends on the resilience of Ukrainian units.
Ukraine's leadership is doing everything possible to ensure that the upcoming June summits — the G7 Summit in Canada and the NATO Summit in the Netherlands — are meaningful and productive.
The enemy attacked Zaporizhzhia with drones, injuring one person and causing several hits.
The enemy targeted two districts in Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day, injuring two men.
The world must be interested in ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
The moment has come when Russia can be forced to stop the war.
With its recent strikes on Russian military targets, including the Spiderweb operation, Ukraine has demonstrated its ability to seize the initiative and strengthen its positions for peace negotiations.
President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined the key advantages Ukraine holds in its war against Russia, emphasizing that these strengths lie not in weaponry, but in the people, morality, truth, dignity, and values.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 75 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with 25 of them occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian troops shelled a residential area, injuring a man.
The number of victims of the Russian strike on the Nedryhailiv community has risen to five people, including four women and one man.
A local resident was injured in Antonivka, Kherson region, as a result of Russian shelling in the morning.
Firefighters in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region have extinguished a large-scale blaze at an agricultural equipment warehouse, which broke out following a Russian strike. The fire covered an area of over 2,000 square meters.
Aerial reconnaissance soldiers from the Strix reconnaissance and strike drone systems unit, part of Ukraine's 4th Border Detachment, have destroyed two Russian shelters, two vehicles, and a communications antenna in the Kharkiv region.
Satellite imagery reveals that Russia has started building protective shelters for aircraft at its military airfields following a Ukrainian special operation.
As of 09:00 on Sunday, Russian forces launched three attacks on the positions of Ukraine's Defense Forces near the settlements of Vovchansk, Vovchanski Khutory, and Zapadne in the Kharkiv region.
Eight Russian service members were killed and five others were wounded in a missile attack on Iskander missile systems in Russia's Bryansk region.
In Russian-occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, a workshop at the Hydromash plant is on fire.
In the Toretsk sector, Russian troops are attempting to advance toward the settlement of Yablunivka and are working to establish a foothold in the direction of Kostiantynivka.
In the early hours of June 8, Russian forces attacked two communities in Sumy region, injuring three civilians.
Over the past day, Russian forces killed six residents of Kharkiv region and injured 44 people.
Russian aviation carried out massive airstrikes on the territory of Derhachi community in Kharkiv region — one man was killed and another seriously injured.
On June 7, Russian forces carried out attacks on the city of Kharkiv and nine other settlements in Kharkiv region. As a result, three people were killed and 23 were injured. The attacks also caused significant damage to infrastructure and residential buildings.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 40 out of 49 drones launched by Russian forces in an overnight attack on Ukraine on June 7.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that 61 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were allegedly intercepted and destroyed overnight over Russian territory and occupied Ukrainian Crimea.
Over the past day, June 7, a total of 193 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, a private residential building burned down as a result of an attack by a Russian FPV drone, and one person was injured.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to June 8, 2025, amount to approximately 996,150 people, including 1,120 people over the past day.