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Thursday, 09 April 2026, 17:33
Russia's use of the Oreshnik ballistic missile against Ukraine indicates its intention to remind the West of the nuclear threat and signal a possible escalation of the war.
Russian troops shelled a hospital in Kherson, wounding two medical workers.
Nearly 6,000 apartment buildings in Kyiv have been left without heating as a result of damage to the city's critical infrastructure caused by a massive Russian attack.
Russia's January 9 attack has left 417,000 consumers in four districts of the Ukrainian capital without electricity.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the world, and above all the US, must respond decisively to Russia's large-scale night strike on Ukraine, during which they used a medium-range ballistic missile, the Oreshnik. The Qatar Embassy building in the capital was damaged.
As a result of the Russian attack on the night of January 9, 40 objects were damaged in Kyiv, including 20 residential buildings.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that on the night of January 9, a strike was carried out on Ukrainian territory, including with a medium-range Oreshnik ballistic missile.
Water infrastructure facilities in Kyiv were left without power as a result of a massive Russian attack on the night of January 9.
Five people were injured, and houses were damaged in the Kyiv region as a result of a combined attack by Russian troops.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 226 Russian drones, eight Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles, and 10 Kalibr cruise missiles.
The city of Barvinkove in the Kharkiv region was hit by Russian strikes yesterday, January 8. The railway infrastructure was damaged.
On January 8, a total of 161 combat engagements took place between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders, with the enemy putting the most pressure on the Pokrovsk sector. Increased activity was also observed in the Huliaipole and Kostiantynivka sectors.
In Kyiv and two districts of the Kyiv region, emergency electricity outages have been introduced by order of the NEC Ukrenergo.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in personnel from February 24, 2022, to January 9, 2026, have reached approximately 1,216,930, of which 1,030 were eliminated in the past 24 hours.
In Kyiv, the number of people injured following the Russian attack on the night of January 9 has risen to 24, while four people were killed.
Soldiers of the 71st Separate Airmobile Brigade of the 8th Corps of the Air Assault Forces, in coordination with adjacent units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, repelled a massive and combined assault by Russian invaders in the Sumy region on the night of January 7.
In the Brovary district of the Kyiv region, three adults and a five-year-old child were rescued from the basement of a private house following a fire caused by an enemy attack.
In the Kursk sector of the front, drone operators of the Stalevyi Kordon (Steel Border) Border Guard Brigade destroyed a quad bike, a communications antenna, and four shelters belonging to Russian invaders.
As a result of a combined Russian attack on Kyiv, damage was recorded in four districts of the city. Four people were killed and 19 others were injured.
Russia may have carried out a strike on Ukraine’s Lviv region from the Kapustin Yar test range in Russia’s Astrakhan region, where, according to preliminary information, the Oreshnik missile system is based.
A large-scale collapse of public utilities is unfolding in Russia, caused by years of infrastructure decay and the redirection of state funds to the war against Ukraine.
In the Donetsk region, 33,600 civilians currently remain in areas of active hostilities, including 248 children.
08 January 2026
As many as 142 combat engagements have been recorded between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders since the beginning of the day.
There are currently no signs of improvement, and the scale of the "red zone" in Kherson depends on the intensity of shelling from the left bank of the region.
The Russian army attacked Kryvyi Rih with missiles and UAVs, with 17 people injured after a strike on a residential area.
Ukrainian Defense Forces hit moving stock of fuel and lubricants at the Hvardiyske oil depot in occupied Crimea, as well as a Russian military repair unit in Hirne in temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are making maximum efforts to halt enemy advances and currently control the northern part of Pokrovsk, while in Myrnohrad Ukrainian troops are conducting active defense operations.
Russian forces attacked a port in the Odesa region with drones, damaging an empty oil storage tank.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that another massive Russian strike could occur overnight and urged citizens to stay alert to air raid warnings.