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08 September 2024
After the Russian missile attack on the Institute of Communications in Poltava, 220 wounded people are still receiving inpatient treatment, among them there are people with severe injuries.
The main focus now, at the beginning of the fall, is to strengthen Ukraine's position as much as possible, as well as protect Ukrainian cities and villages from Russian terror.
On September 8, at least 13 people were injured in a Russian strike on the town of Derhachi, Kharkiv region. One woman died.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces hit a fuel storage site in Belgorod region, setting on fire a number of rail fuel tanks.
Russian troops attacked the town of Derhachi in Kharkiv region using rockets fitted with cluster munitions.
Since the beginning of the day, as many as 95 combat clashes have taken place on the battlefield, the hottest directions being Kurakhove and Pokrovsk.
On September 7, a Russian military drone crashed in the east of Latvia.
On September 8, at noon, Russians hit a minibus with explosives dropped from a drone in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson. Six people were injured.
On Sunday, September 8, Russians shelled the city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, with artillery, injuring a 66-year-old woman.
In Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, the bodies of two people were retrieved from under the rubble of the destroyed hotel; the rescue work has been completed by now.
On September 8, Russians launched an airstrike on Sumy district; according to preliminary data, people are wounded.
NATO Deputy Secretary General, Mircea Geoana, condemned Russia's violation into the airspace of the NATO member country, as overnight, a Russian drone flew into the Romanian territory.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed 8,960 Russian invaders and 1,136 pieces of enemy equipment and weapons, as well as 31 missiles, more than three hundred Russian drones and two air defense systems over the past week.
Another person who was injured during a rocket attack on the city on September 3 died in hospital in Poltava.
In Donetsk region, on the morning of September 8, Russian troops fired MLRS with cluster munitions at the village of Cherkaske, Kramatorsk district, killing three people and injuring two others.
Over the past day, five civilians were killed in Donetsk region as a result of Russian shelling, and 11 others were injured.
Russian troops hit the city of Sumy with two KAB guided aerial bombs.
Ukraine continues to successfully adapt its anti-drone capabilities, allowing Ukrainian forces to use lower-end systems to offset Russian pressure on Ukraine’s limited air defense umbrella.
According to analysts with the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russia may use Iranian Fath-360 missiles to attack energy, civil, and military infrastructure of Ukraine later this fall and throughout winter.
A total of 183 combat engagements were recorded between Ukraine’s defense forces and Russian invasion troops in the last day, with the situation remaining tensest in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove axes.
Ukraine’s air defense forces intercepted 15 Shahed one-way attack drones and a Kh-59 guided air missile in the early hours of Sunday, September 8.
Russian troops shelled Komyshany in the Kherson region at night - four people were wounded.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to September 8, 2024, amounted to about 625,260 people, including another 1,270 people in the last day.
During the day, the invaders fired 228 times at 8 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region.
During the attack on Odesa region, a group of attack drones launched by Russian troops violated Romanian airspace.
An air strike by Russian troops in Sumy killed two people and wounded four others, including two children.
An explosion was heard during an air raid in Poltava, and according to the Regional Military Administration, Russians struck at civilian infrastructure in the local community.
Russian military commanders approve of extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield.
07 September 2024
One civilian woman died and another was injured as a result of a Russian strike targeting the Nikopol district in Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday.
Two elderly women who were unable to leave the part of Kherson region captured by Russian troops on their own have been returned to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government.