Ukrainian air defenses down 110 out of 125 Russian drones
Ukraine’s air defense forces have shot down 110 out of the 125 drones that Russian forces used to attack Ukraine since the evening of February 9.
10 February 2026
Ukraine’s air defense forces have shot down 110 out of the 125 drones that Russian forces used to attack Ukraine since the evening of February 9.
On February 9, 168 combat clashes between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline.
Russia’s combat losses in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to February 10, 2026 total to approximately 1,248,560 personnel, including 980 over the past day.
Russian forces struck an energy facility in the Odesa region, leaving settlements in three communities partially without electricity.
Russian forces attacked the town of Vilniansk in the Zaporizhzhia region with drones, leaving four people wounded.
Soldiers of the 3rd Spartan Operational Brigade named after Colonel Petro Bolbochan of the National Guard of Ukraine repelled an attempted breakthrough by Russian forces near Pokrovsk, destroying a company of enemy assault troops over the course of two days.
Fighters of the State Border Guard Service used drones to strike a Russian boat, a quad bike, a vehicle, and communications antennas on the southern axis.
09 February 2026
On February 9, Ukrainian forces engaged in 159 combat clashes with Russian invaders, with 36 attempts by the enemy to break through in the Pokrovsk sector.
After Starlink was disabled, the Russians are urgently supplying satellite internet terminals to the front.
A team from Latvia's public broadcaster LSM – journalist Odita Krenberga and cameraman Aigars Kovalevskis – came under a Russian drone attack while working in a combat zone in Ukraine near the front line.
The crew of a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter was killed while carrying out a combat mission.
Fighters of the State Border Guard Service’s Hart border brigade have thwarted an attempt by Russian invaders to break through the state border in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, destroying five vehicles and three communications antennas with drones.
Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding the line and inflicting significant losses on Russian troops in the Kramatorsk sector of the front, while the situation remains difficult in the Orikhovo-Vasylivka area.
Russian forces attacked the Synelnykove, Nikopol, Dnipro, and Kryvyi Rih districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day with missiles, drones, and artillery, leaving three people injured.
In January, 48 fire missions using DeepStrike were carried out against Russia’s oil and gas sector, resulting in an overall 19% reduction in oil refining in Russia.
Russian invading forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia. Energy workers reported damage to the power grid.
Since the beginning of the day, 74 clashes have occurred between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the heaviest pressure from the enemy on the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces do not control the settlement of Hlushkivka in the Kharkiv region.
Fighting has been ongoing for a long time in the area of the settlement of Dehtiarnе in the Kharkiv region, as Russian forces are attempting to infiltrate and establish control over the border area.
Russian forces continue to shell civilian railway infrastructure, with the main focus of the attacks on northern regions of Ukraine.
Reports by the Russian side claiming the alleged capture of the village of Prydorozhnie in the Zaporizhzhia region do not correspond to reality. The settlement remains under the control of Ukrainian defenders.
Ukrainian Defense Forces units struck an ammunition depot and an enemy command post and destroyed a UAV warehouse on Russian territory.
Units of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade, named after Prince Roman the Great of the 10th Army Corps, in cooperation with forces of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade, named after Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozky, thwarted an enemy attempt to break through defenses in the Kupiansk sector.
Information about the alleged capture of the village of Ternuvate in the Zaporizhzhia region by Russian troops is not true; the settlement remains under the control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled an attempt by a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group to advance into the rear north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, killing three invaders and wounding two others.
On Monday morning, February 9, Russian troops launched an air strike on a residential area of Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region.
Yesterday, February 8, 10 settlements in the Kharkiv region were hit by Russian strikes, two people were killed, and six others were injured, including a minor girl.
After the Russian attack on Yahotyn in the Kyiv region, two State Emergency Service employees were injured.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 116 drones and intercepted some of the Iskander-M ballistic missiles used by Russia to attack Ukraine on the evening of February 8.
In Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region, one man was killed, and two men and two women were wounded as a result of an attack by the Russian Federation.