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09 January 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discussed the situation on the battlefield, Ukraine's defense needs for various types of drones, and strengthening air defense.
In the afternoon of January 9, an explosion occurred near a government agency in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa region.
A Russian air strike on Kherson damaged 39 residential buildings, a university building, and bombs fell on private homes and a kindergarten. The number of victims has increased to ten.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is convinced that the deployment of military contingents from partner countries in Ukraine would one of the best tools to force Russia to peace, and therefore partners should be "more practical" to this end.
Soldiers from the 47th Magura Separate Mechanized Brigade together with other units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces repelled a massive enemy assault in Russia’s Kursk region.
The United States has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth 500 million USD.
In settlements of Donetsk region classified as active combat zones, as many as 250 children remain.
The Russian forces struck Kherson with three guided aerial bombs, causing destruction and injuries. The bombs hit a business, an educational institution, and a kindergarten.
In the Zaporizhzhia sector of the front, the Russian forces are conducting assault operations with small infantry groups supported by lightweight vehicles.
In the Siversk sector of the front, the Ukrainian fortifications in Bilohorivka were attacked.
In the morning, a woman was killed in the Kherson region as a result of Russian shelling of the village of Neslamne of the Bilozerka community.
In the morning, Russians attacked the town of Beryslav with a UAV, injuring a 71-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man.
The consequences of the night and morning shelling of the city have been made public in Kherson.
On the morning of January 9, Russian troops dropped explosives from a drone on a cyclist in Novoraysk, Kherson region.
On the night of January 9, air defense forces shot down five Russian drones in Cherkasy district of Cherkasy region, damaging 11 buildings and a car.
On the night of January 9, units of the Defense Forces shot down 46 enemy UAVs, 24 drones were lost locally.
In the evening of January 8, two women were injured in the village of Nove Pekelne, Kharkiv region, as a result of the fall of the wreckage of a downed Russian UAV.
On the night of January 9, the Russian army carried out five attacks on the Velyka Pysarivka community in Sumy region.
On January 8, the Russian forces launched attacks on 40 settlements in Kherson region which claimed the lives of four people, ten others were injured.
The total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to January 9, 2024, amount to about 803,100 individuals, including 1,430 people in the past 24 hours.
In the aftermath of a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, as many as 113 people were injured, 59 of them were hospitalized.
The "White Angel" police evacuation team from Lyman, Donetsk region, has rescued 672 civilians, including 13 children, from areas under heavy shelling over the past year.
A representative of the occupation authorities in Zaporizhzhia region, Yevhen Balytskyi, accused Ukraine's Defense Forces of attempting to “cause an environmental disaster in the Sea of Azov.”
Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif presented an updated version of the Human Rights Council’s report on the war in Ukraine for the period from September 1 to November 30, 2024, in Geneva.
In the Kerch Strait, the occupiers are sinking "hedgehog"-type barriers.
08 January 2025
US Ambassador Bridget Brink reacted to today's Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia and said that her country, together with its partners, will continue to increase assistance to Ukraine.
The number of victims of the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia has increased to 63. Currently, 13 people are known to have died.
The bodies of two women were found under the rubble of a house destroyed by shelling in Stepnohirsk, Zaporizhzhia region, and two more people were rescued.
The operation in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation significantly changes the entire operational situation at the front.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that tomorrow he would take part in a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine's defense in the Ramstein format in Germany.