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Thursday, 09 April 2026, 22:06
In the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region, a 59-year-old woman and her son were killed in an airstrike on February 22. Another person and two children were trapped under the rubble and sustained injuries.
Over the course of the day, the Russian army carried out more than 40 attacks on two districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region using FPV drones, shelled them with artillery, and dropped glide bombs (KABs). One person was killed and another was injured.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, stated that the Ukrainian negotiating team had never discussed any scenario in which peace could be exchanged for impunity.
Operational assessment of key frontline axes: January–February 2026
Units territorially formed by the command of the invading forces of the aggressor state in Chechnya are avoiding the front lines in Ukraine.
Russian forces are suffering significant irrecoverable losses in the area of responsibility of the Operation Task Force East, while Ukraine’s Defense Forces continue to carry out combat missions.
Long-range drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) struck a critically important hub for transporting Russian oil overnight – the main Kaleikino Oil Pumping Station near Almetyevsk, in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan.
The villages of Nykyforivka, Lypivka, and Platonivka in the Donetsk region, as well as Pokrovka in the Sumy region, remain under the control of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, despite reports claiming that the enemy has advanced near these settlements.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Shahed drone repeaters had appeared on the territory of Belarus, thanks to which attacks on Ukraine were being coordinated. At the same time, according to the president, everything has been done to ensure that three or four of the repeaters are no longer there.
In the Chasiv Yar area of the Donetsk region, the Russian army is deploying tanks and armored vehicles this week, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are detecting and eliminating the enemy as they approach.
Since the end of January this year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have regained control of 400 km² of territory and eight settlements in the Oleksandrivka sector.
Ukrainian Defense Forces struck an area in temporarily occupied Crimea where the missile division of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's 15th Separate Coastal Missile Brigade, armed with K-300P Bastion-P coastal defence missile system, was concentrated.
On the night of February 23, Russians shelled port infrastructure in the Odesa region, leaving dead and wounded.
On the morning of February 23, the Russian army attacked the Kholodnohirskyi and Osnovianskyi districts of Kharkiv, with two casualties reported so far.
Russian troops wounded five residents of the Donetsk region over the past day.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has already started World War III, but the question is how to stop him.
Yesterday, Russian troops shelled the Sumy region over 70 times, leaving one person injured.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that stopping Russian aggression in Ukraine will be a victory for the whole world.
Over the previous day, February 22, 130 combat engagements between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded.
On the night of February 23, UAVs attacked an oil pumping station located near the Russian city of Almetyevsk in the Republic of Tatarstan.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 105 out of 126 drones launched by Russian troops in an overnight attack that began on Sunday evening.
Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a nighttime attack by Russian strike drones in the Odesa region.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to February 23, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to about 1,260,500 soldiers, of which 720 were killed in the past day.
Over the previous day, Russian invaders launched 754 attacks on 44 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of the enemy strikes, two people were killed and four others were injured.
As a result of a Russian drone attack in Zaporizhzhia, a man was killed and another was wounded.
In temporarily occupied Luhansk, Russian forces organized a drone racing championship aimed at preparing children and young people for war.
Ukraine is reaching increasingly distant Russian weapons manufacturing sites, and we should be grateful to everyone working toward this goal.
On the night of February 22, the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit two Russian Tor surface-to-air missile systems in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region and an oil depot in temporarily occupied Luhansk.
In the Znob-Novhorodske community of the Shostka district, Sumy region, police community officer Serhii Slavskyi and his wife Khrystyna, an emergency paramedic, were killed on February 21 while performing their duties.