Ukrainian drones strike Armavir oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar region – SBU
Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck infrastructure at the Armavir oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar region on the night of March 7-8.
09 March 2026
Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck infrastructure at the Armavir oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar region on the night of March 7-8.
Soldiers from the 3rd Spartan Brigade of Ukraine's National Guard carried out a complex evacuation operation for two wounded comrades in the Pokrovsk sector using a ground robotic system amid the threat of Russian drones.
A Russian court has sentenced three Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov brigade to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned Hungary's Ambassador to Ukraine, Antal Heizer, and expressed a strong protest over Hungary's serious violations of its international legal obligations in the treatment of Oschadbank cash collectors who were unlawfully detained while transporting valuables.
The governing board of the Ukraine Investment Framework, the investment component of the EU's Ukraine Facility, has approved a new package of eight programs worth EUR 1.5 billion to support Ukraine's recovery.
Special police regiment soldiers used a drone to evacuate six civilians from Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region.
Emergency power cuts have been introduced in part of the Bucha district in the Kyiv region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that, due to events surrounding Iran, trilateral talks between delegations from Ukraine, the US, and Russia, scheduled for this week, have been postponed at the American side's suggestion.
Russian troops attacked Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih, and Synelnykove districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 30 times with drones and artillery, wounding two people.
Russian troops have been striking energy infrastructure in the Sumy region throughout the day, leaving some users in the Sumy and Okhtyrka districts without power.
The Office of the President of Ukraine did not confirm earlier reports that talks between delegations from Ukraine, the US, and Russia could take place in Istanbul on March 11.
Five civilians were wounded in Kherson during the day as a result of Russian shelling.
The Ministry of Defense of the State of Qatar reported repelling an Iranian air attack and shooting down all ballistic missiles and drones launched by Tehran over Qatar during the first half of the day on March 9.
Russian troops have attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders 47 times since the beginning of the day. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk, Kostiantynivka, and Huliaipole sectors.
In the Orikhiv sector, Russian troops are fighting fiercely every day, trying to push Ukrainian units out of Stepnohirsk, while the Defense Forces are conducting counterattacks to prevent the enemy from gaining a foothold.
Russian troops have intensified their assault operations in the Huliaipole direction and are attempting to advance deeper into Ukrainian defenses, particularly in the area of the settlements of Myrne and Huliaipole.
Russian troops in the south have changed their assault tactics and begun to make more active use of motorcycles, ATVs, and buggies to quickly overcome the “kill zone” and reach their attack positions.
As a result of an Iranian drone attack on the morning of March 9, 32 people, including children, were injured in Bahrain.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has stated that Hungary violated a number of provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations in its treatment of detained employees of Oschadbank.
Israel has reported another death as a result of Iranian strikes, bringing the death toll since the start of the war to 11.
A meeting was held at the Cabinet of Ministers with key representatives of the petroleum products market to coordinate further actions to ensure uninterrupted fuel supplies.
Patriarch Filaret has been hospitalized due to deteriorating health.
A ballistic missile launched from Iran was destroyed by NATO air and missile defense systems in Turkish airspace. There were no casualties or injuries as a result of falling debris.
As of now, Ukraine has received 11 requests from Iran's neighboring countries, European states, and the United States for security support, in particular, in countering the Shaheds.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has allocated an additional UAH 3 billion from the state budget's reserve fund for repairs of national highways.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed strikes on Russian air defense systems, command and observation posts, and areas of troop concentration in temporarily occupied Crimea and other temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
A 62-year-old railway worker who was wounded during a Russian attack on the Odesa region on March 4 has died in hospital.
The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, has asked the European Commission to cancel sanctions imposed on Russian energy resources.
While continuing their counteroffensive in the Oleksandrivka sector, the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces have regained control of 285.6 square kilometers of territory over the past month.
Europe can no longer rely solely on a rules-based world order, so the European Union needs a more realistic foreign policy.