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08 January 2026
Ukrainian Defense Forces hit moving stock of fuel and lubricants at the Hvardiyske oil depot in occupied Crimea, as well as a Russian military repair unit in Hirne in temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are making maximum efforts to halt enemy advances and currently control the northern part of Pokrovsk, while in Myrnohrad Ukrainian troops are conducting active defense operations.
Russian forces attacked a port in the Odesa region with drones, damaging an empty oil storage tank.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that another massive Russian strike could occur overnight and urged citizens to stay alert to air raid warnings.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, nearly 250,000 residents remain without heating and around 20,000 without water following a Russian attack on the region’s energy infrastructure in the evening of January 7.
Ten people have been reported wounded as a result of a Russian Iskander missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.
Russian forces are attacking Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles.
Since the beginning of the day, 54 combat engagements have taken place between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting is currently ongoing on five axes of the front, with the occupiers concentrating the greatest efforts on the Pokrovsk direction.
Proposals by France and the United Kingdom on structuring measures to deter future Russian aggression against Ukraine across land, air, and maritime domains are encouraging.
Three civilians were killed and two others injured in the downtown area of Kherson as a result of Russian shelling.
Intelligence officers intercepted a conversation in which a Russian commander threatens a subordinate soldier with reprisals after the latter asks to postpone the time of moving to a position due to the risk to his life.
After Operation Spiderweb, carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) under the leadership of General Vasyl Maliuk, Russia has still been unable to repair the damage inflicted on its strategic aviation.
Russian forces shelled the central part of Kherson, injuring three people.
The United Kingdom has delivered 13 Raven air defense systems and two prototypes of the new Gravehawk system to Ukraine.
Russian attacks have left the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions almost completely without power. The situation in Dnipro is one of the most difficult. According to Mayor Borys Filatov, this is a national-level emergency.
The situation with restoring power supply in Kryvyi Rih remains difficult, with nearly 39,000 customers in the city still without electricity.
Four people were injured in Russia's shelling of the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson and were hospitalized in moderate condition.
The Russian Navy is minimizing the deployment of its vessels in the Sea of Azov due to limited navigation routes and the risk of being struck.
The settlement of Andriivka in the Sumy region remains under the control of Ukrainian forces, and reports of its capture by Russian troops are false.
As of the morning of January 8, around 800,000 electricity consumers remain without power in the Dnipropetrovsk region; eight mines were cut off due to a Russian strike.
Electricity supply has been restored to part of the critical infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region, with all regional repair crews involved in restoration efforts.
As of the morning of January 8, more than one million consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk region remain without heating and water supply. Restoration efforts are ongoing.
Russian forces shelled and carried out FPV drone attacks on the Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Pavlohrad, Nikopol, and Synelnykove districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, damaging civilian infrastructure.
Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railway) has restored train services in Zaporizhzhia to standard operation, while backup diesel locomotives are being used at full capacity in Dnipro.
On the frontline on January 7, 275 combat clashes were recorded between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders.
Specialists from Zaporizhzhiaoblenergo have restored electricity supply to residents of the government-controlled part of Zaporizhzhia region.
Air defense forces neutralized 70 of the 97 drones launched by Russia against Ukraine from the evening of January 7.
Over the past day, Russian forces carried out 698 strikes on 30 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, wounding five people.
Russia suffered approximately 1,215,900 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and January 8, 2026, with 1,400 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Fighters of the special unit "OMEGA-WEST" of the National Guard of Ukraine carried out a successful assault on a stronghold of Russian invaders in Rodynske, part of the Pokrovsk community in Donetsk region.