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2025-01-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 8, 2024
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.

[Korrespondent] 22.58 The number of casualties in Zaporozhye as a result of the Russian attack has increased. Currently, 63 people are known to have been injured.

22.35 The special representative of the newly elected US president for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, sets the goal of trying to find a solution to the war within 100 days after the inauguration of Donald Trump.

20.50 Chairman of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration Ivan Fedorov reported that a Day of Mourning in Zaporizhia will be declared on January 9 in connection with the airstrikes that took the lives of 13 city residents.

20.10 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga, after Russia's airstrikes on Zaporozhye, called for more weapons to be provided to Ukraine and for more sanctions to be introduced against the aggressor.

19.15 Russian military launched aerial bomb attacks on Zaporizhia. 13 people were killed and 29 were injured. The moment of the KAB attack was captured on video from a car dashcam.

The moment of the attack was captured on the dashcam of a driver heading in the direction where the explosion was visible.

18.09 Russian invaders have deliberately launched air strikes on Zaporizhia. This was written by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Facebook. According to him, the end of such a war with a reliable peace is possible only through force.

17.45 As a result of the airstrike of Russian aggressors on Zaporizhia, 13 people were killed and another 30 were injured. Seven medical teams, police officers and rescuers of the State Emergency Service are working at the site of the Russian strike.

17.24 Since the beginning of the current day, 111 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The overwhelming majority of battles are being fought in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk directions, as well as in the Kursk region. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported details as of 16.00.

16:42 In 2024, oil refineries and fuel depots in Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine were attacked at least 81 times, the BBC reports.

Oil facilities in the southern regions of Russia are most often hit. About 20% of all attacks occurred in Krasnodar Krai, eight in Rostov Oblast, six in Belgorod Oblast, and five each in Oryol and Volgograd Oblasts. At least 64 of the attacks resulted in fires.

16:31 Law enforcement officers detained the commander of one of the companies of the 155th OMBR named after Anna Kievskaya. The senior lieutenant not only committed an act of unauthorized abandonment of the unit, but also incited his soldiers to do so. The State Bureau of Investigation reported the details .

16:19 Since the first year of the full-scale war, the area of ​​potentially mined lands in Ukraine has decreased from 174 thousand to 139 thousand square kilometers. This is the result of non-technical survey of the territories and their demining by the Defense Forces and mine action operators. This was announced by the head of government Denys Shmyhat during a meeting on the status of demining activities in 2024.

16:15 Russian aggressors attacked industrial infrastructure of Zaporozhye. Currently, one person is known to have died and six injured.

15:57 Ukrainian military struck the command post of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied city of Khartsyzsk in Donetsk Oblast. Eyewitnesses have already shared their emotions from the "arrivals".

Warning: the video contains obscene language!

14:55 Belarus will hold military training with conscripts from territorial units near the border with Ukraine. They will last until January 31.

14:17 Tomorrow's meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format may be the last. This opinion was voiced by Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz.

12:46 Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatiy reported to President Volodymyr Zelensky on the situation with the 155th separate mechanized brigade named after Anna Kyivska, which was trained by France. This unit is planned to be strengthened, the commander said .

12:25 Russians killed two people in the city of Berislav and the village of Pridneprovsky in the Kherson region. A 40-year-old and a 71-year-old man were killed.

11:21 On Wednesday night, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Russian oil base in the city of Engels in the Saratov region. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it supplied fuel to the Engels-2 military airfield, where the Russian strategic aviation is based.

Warning, the video contains obscene language!

11:15 Russian troops stormed the positions of Ukrainian forces in Chasovy Yar and Toretsk, destroying some positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported by the Operational-Strategic Group of Forces Khortytsia.

10:20 A sabotage group of the FSB was neutralized in Khmelnytskyi region. Two attackers blew up the tracks on a local railway span along which a freight train was moving, the SBU reported . The detainees were two residents of the Khmelnytskyi region, aged 28 and 29. One of them is a drug addict, the other is a deserter.

9:47 The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 41 Russian Shahed and other types of attack UAVs . This was reported by the Ukrainian Air Force. 22 enemy drone imitators were lost (without negative consequences), three of them flew towards Russia, one - to Belarus.

9:26 Norway will allocate 164 million Norwegian kroner (about 14 million euros) in 2025 to support demining efforts in Ukraine, in particular, using mine-detector dogs. This was reported by the Norwegian government. In Romny, the Norwegian organization Norsk Folkehjelp and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) created a training base for demining dogs and dog handlers.

8:46 The air raid alarm during the drone attack on the Kiev region on the night of January 8 lasted for about 7 hours. There is minor damage as a result of the debris falling from the downed target.

8:27 The Ukrainian Defense Forces, during attempts to storm the enemy in the Kursk region with tanks and armored vehicles to capture the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, inflicted losses on the enemy in equipment and personnel. A video of the destruction of enemy equipment during Russian assaults was published online, which ended in a fiasco for the enemy.

7:47 Russia has lost 1,660 of its soldiers on the front over the past 24 hours. This is evidenced by the data of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for January 8.

7:25 The Russian Defense Ministry announced on its Telegram channel that it allegedly "shot down 32 drones" over 7 regions of the Russian Federation and the waters of the Sea of ​​Azov.

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