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Tuesday, 09 December 2025, 17:38
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has urged residents of the capital to stock up on water, prepare first aid kits and food supplies, and charge backup power devices.
The Odesa-Tolyatti ammonia pipeline has been damaged as a result of Russian artillery shelling in Donetsk region.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 102 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with fighting still ongoing on five sectors. The enemy continues to be most active in the Pokrovsk sector.
In Kremenchuk, Poltava region, police bomb disposal experts found fragments of a missile that may have contained a cluster warhead.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Vitalii Kostiuchenko, a captured soldier of the 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov, to 18 years in a strict regime prison.
The UK Ministry of Defence has delivered hundreds of air defense missiles to Ukraine five months ahead of the planned supply schedule.
In Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, the enemy launched a FAB-250 air strike on a residential area, damaging residential buildings.
In Zaporizhzhia, the number of wounded increased to eight as a result of a combined Russian attack.
The Russian attack on the night of October 10 was mainly aimed at power generation facilities on the left bank of Ukraine.
Overnight on October 10, during a missile and drone attack on the town of Kaniv in Cherkasy region, ten people were injured, including a 10-year-old boy.
In September, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck 70 facilities of Russia’s military-industrial complex.
Ukraine’s air defense forces intercepted 420 drones and missiles launched by Russian forces since the evening, with direct hits recorded in 19 locations.
Overnight, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, damaging power grids and municipal systems in Kyiv and 11 regions.
In Donetsk region, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) destroyed an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group (SRG) in Yampil, preventing further enemy advancement.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that during the night, Russia launched more than 30 missiles and over 450 drones targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. More than 20 people were injured, and in Zaporizhzhia, a child was killed.
In Kremenchuk district of Poltava region, an energy infrastructure facility was damaged as a result of direct hits and falling debris from Russian aerial targets.
In Kyiv region, about 28,000 households in Brovary and Boryspil districts were left without electricity overnight on Friday, October 10, following a massive combined attack by Russian forces using missiles of various types and strike drones.
In Cherkasy region, infrastructure was damaged as a result of an air attack by Russian forces; three people sought medical assistance.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) struck 812 enemy targets, and since the beginning of October, as many as 7,198 targets have been hit.
There were 245 combat engagements between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian troops on October 9, with the heaviest pressure applied in the Pokrovsk sector. Increased enemy activity was also recorded in the Oleksandrohrad and Southern Slobozhanshchyna sectors.
The number of people injured in the enemy attack on Kyiv has risen to 12.
The Russian army struck the city of Dnipro and several districts of the region with missiles and UAVs, damaging energy infrastructure.
Russia suffered approximately 1,120,510 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 10, 2025, with 1,120 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
In Zaporizhzhia, due to damage to gas facilities, residents are being asked to temporarily limit natural gas consumption.
A seven-year-old boy wounded during a Russian drone attack has died in hospital in Zaporizhzhia.
Nine people were injured in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv's Pecherskyi district, while in the Desnianskyi district drone debris fell on the grounds of a polyclinic.
The eastern districts of Kyiv have been left without electricity following a Russian missile and drone attack, with problems also recorded with the water supply.
A fire was reported near the Yefimovka oil refinery in the Volgograd region following a drone attack.
09 October 2025
There have been 199 combat clashes on the frontline today, with the Pokrovsk and Oleksandrohrad sectors remaining the hottest spots. Fighting continues in almost half of all sectors.