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Monday, 09 February 2026, 10:25
Currently, Russian forces are not making active attempts to seize the island zone on the left bank of the Kherson region, although they have not entirely abandoned their plans to bring it under control.
The Russian Federation has used nearly 50 missiles, over 3,270 strike drones, and 1,370 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine this week.
Operators of the Prime UAV unit of the 5th Border Guard Detachment eliminated the positions and communications equipment of Russian invaders in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Russian troops shelled a railway station and a gas station in Sumy yesterday, wounding four people. A total of 58 enemy shellings were recorded in the region.
Drone operators from the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade neutralized the Russian invaders' TOS-1A Solntsepyok multiple rocket launcher as it was being prepared for firing.
Over the course of 24 hours, the Russians shelled 17 settlements in the Chernihiv region 46 times.
In the Samara region of the Russian Federation, an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles caused a fire at the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery.
There were 223 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops over the past day, with the enemy being most active in the Pokrovsk sector.
Partisans carried out a successful sabotage operation on a key communications hub in the Bryansk region of Russia, causing chaos in the enemy's command and control system.
One man was killed and 14 people were wounded in Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region over the past 24 hours.
Ukraine’s air defense forces have shot down 40 out of 62 Russian drones, with confirmed strikes at seven locations.
Governor of Russia’s Orenburg region Yevhen Solntsev reported a drone strike on the gas processing plant.
In Kherson region, five people were injured over the past day as a result of Russian shelling.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in manpower from February 24, 2022, to October 19, 2025, have reached approximately 1,130,180 personnel, with 1,000 eliminated in the past 24 hours.
Ten people were injured in a drone attack on Shakhtarsk community in Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
In the Kursk sector, fighters from the 'Stalevyi Kordon' (Steel Border) border guard brigade used drones to strike two enemy shelters and a Russian communication antenna.
On the Zaporizhzhia front, the Russian command is not sending evacuation teams to rescue the wounded in order to avoid risking their vehicles.
Another teenager has been evacuated from the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region.
Members of the military partisan movement ATESH helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine damage Russian air defense systems near Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region.
On the Southern Slobozhanshchyna front, drone pilots from the Strix strike UAV unit of the 4th Border Guard Detachment destroyed four enemy positions, a shelter, and three Russian vehicles.
18 October 2025
Ukrainian forces engaged in 116 combat clashes with Russian troops on October 18, with about a third of them in the Pokrovsk sector, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on Facebook.
Soldiers of the 10th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces have intercepted a radio transmission in which a Russian serviceman gives an order to execute a civilian in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.
In the town of Lozova, Kharkiv region, four people were injured on October 18 following a strike by a Russian aerial bomb.
Russian troops carried out attacks across multiple communities in Dnipropetrovsk region, resulting in civilian casualties.
Russian troops carried out drone attacks on Sumy region, hitting educational facilities and railway infrastructure.
Since the beginning of the day, 74 combat engagements have taken place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, 31 of them on the Pokrovsk front.
Two people were wounded in shelling in the Polohy district of the Zaporizhzhia region.
European countries need to clearly define what they consider an acceptable end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Russian troops attacked a gas station in the Zarichnyi district of Sumy with a combat UAV, injuring a woman.