Air defense forces neutralize 122 of 137 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 122 out of the 137 drones launched by Russia in attacks on Ukraine starting from the evening of March 9.
10 March 2026
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 122 out of the 137 drones launched by Russia in attacks on Ukraine starting from the evening of March 9.
Russian forces attacked three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones and shelled them with artillery, injuring 10 people.
Russia suffered approximately 1,274,990 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and March 10, 2026, with 950 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupying forces launched 651 strikes on 36 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Russians damaged private houses in the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv with a drone.
In Kharkiv, people continue to seek medical assistance after the Russian strike on the Industrialnyi district, and six people are now reported injured.
Russian troops attacked Dnipro. As a result of the strike, a multi-storey residential building was damaged and ten people were injured.
On March 9, in Chernihiv, a former secretary of the Desnianskyi District Court was sentenced to ten years in prison for supporting the aggressor and mocking the burials of Ukrainian defenders in a video.
Soldiers from the 425th Separate Assault Regiment “Skelia” carried out a large-scale and complex operation in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, to destroy Russian strongholds.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR) has published data on another 19 enterprises involved in the Russian production cooperation for the "Orion" unmanned aerial vehicle and 30 foreign components used in the Iranian Shahed-107 and the Russian "Phoenix" UAV.
Ukrainian defenders hit three Russian "Pantsir-S1" anti-aircraft missile and gun systems in temporarily occupied Crimea.
09 March 2026
Since the beginning of the day, 122 combat clashes have taken place between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders.
Five people have been injured in a Russian drone strike on Kharkiv.
Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck infrastructure at the Armavir oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar region on the night of March 7-8.
Soldiers from the 3rd Spartan Brigade of Ukraine's National Guard carried out a complex evacuation operation for two wounded comrades in the Pokrovsk sector using a ground robotic system amid the threat of Russian drones.
A Russian court has sentenced three Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov brigade to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges.
Special police regiment soldiers used a drone to evacuate six civilians from Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that, due to events surrounding Iran, trilateral talks between delegations from Ukraine, the US, and Russia, scheduled for this week, have been postponed at the American side's suggestion.
Russian troops attacked Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih, and Synelnykove districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 30 times with drones and artillery, wounding two people.
Russian troops have been striking energy infrastructure in the Sumy region throughout the day, leaving some users in the Sumy and Okhtyrka districts without power.
The Office of the President of Ukraine did not confirm earlier reports that talks between delegations from Ukraine, the US, and Russia could take place in Istanbul on March 11.
Five civilians were wounded in Kherson during the day as a result of Russian shelling.
Russian troops have attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders 47 times since the beginning of the day. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk, Kostiantynivka, and Huliaipole sectors.
In the Orikhiv sector, Russian troops are fighting fiercely every day, trying to push Ukrainian units out of Stepnohirsk, while the Defense Forces are conducting counterattacks to prevent the enemy from gaining a foothold.
Russian troops have intensified their assault operations in the Huliaipole direction and are attempting to advance deeper into Ukrainian defenses, particularly in the area of the settlements of Myrne and Huliaipole.
Russian troops in the south have changed their assault tactics and begun to make more active use of motorcycles, ATVs, and buggies to quickly overcome the “kill zone” and reach their attack positions.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed strikes on Russian air defense systems, command and observation posts, and areas of troop concentration in temporarily occupied Crimea and other temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
A 62-year-old railway worker who was wounded during a Russian attack on the Odesa region on March 4 has died in hospital.
While continuing their counteroffensive in the Oleksandrivka sector, the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces have regained control of 285.6 square kilometers of territory over the past month.
Pilots from the 9th Kairos Battalion of the 414th Unmanned Systems Brigade "Magyar's Birds" destroyed a Russian Nadgrobok radar system in temporarily occupied Crimea and a Buk-M2 air defense missile system launcher in the occupied part of the Donetsk region during a night operation on March 8.