Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:53 Russians fired at Ochakov in the Nikolaev region using barrel artillery, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
21:29 The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a fuel storage site in the Belgorod Region, and railway tanks caught fire, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported. According to him, the incident occurred in the Volokonovsky District, and according to local residents, in the village of Yutanovka.
20:37 The number of victims as a result of the Russian strike on the city of Dergachi in the Kharkiv region has grown to 13, one person has died, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
20:14 Zelensky once again emphasized the need for long-range solutions in his evening video address. The President also thanked Germany, the United States, Britain, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Romania, Lithuania and Latvia for the steps announced at the Rammstein meeting, as well as for other assistance agreed upon this week.
In addition, Zelensky said that Ukraine continues to work with representatives of both US parties. In particular, on the sidelines of the forum in Italy, he held a meeting with a delegation of the US Congress. "We talked, in particular, about a plan for victory for Ukraine - about certain details of it. And we will fully present all the steps to US President Biden and both presidential candidates - Trump and Harris," Zelensky noted.
The president also reported that after the attack on the Poltava Institute of Communications, 220 wounded are still being treated in hospital, including seriously and very seriously.
19:18 Russians attacked the private sector in Dergachi, Kharkiv region - one person was killed, at least ten were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
16:55 In the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, six people were injured due to an attack by a Russian drone, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. In particular, four people were injured as a result of explosives being dropped from a drone onto a minibus, and two more were on the street at the time of the strike. In addition, a resident of Novoberislav, who was hit by an enemy drone yesterday morning, went to the hospital.
16:13 Iranian MP Ahmad Bakhshaesh Ardestani admitted that his country sent ballistic missiles to Russia. He explained that Iran has to engage in barter to meet its needs, including importing soybeans and wheat. Part of the barter includes sending missiles, and another part includes sending military drones to Russia. At the same time, the MP noted that Tehran is not afraid of sanctions: "It cannot be worse than it is now. We give missiles to Hezbollah, Hamas and the Hashd al-Shaabi, so why not give them to the Russian Federation?"
15:37 A Russian military drone crashed in Latvia on Saturday, September 7. The country's Defense Ministry reported that the incident occurred in Rezekne County in eastern Latvia. Responsible services are investigating the circumstances of the incident, but according to preliminary data, the Russian drone flew into Latvian airspace from Belarus.
14:58 Ukraine has banned Russian prisoners from calling home in response to the increase in the number of executions of Ukrainian soldiers, said Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets: "I will say frankly, we are changing some things. For example, there were many discussions about the possibility of Russian prisoners of war calling their relatives in Russia... At the moment, we have been informed that Russians still have the opportunity to write letters, but they no longer have the right to make phone calls." The ombudsman added that the Geneva Conventions provide for the right to correspondence, not to make phone calls.
14:09 Russians fired from MLRS at the village of Cherkasskoye in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region - as a result of cluster munitions hitting, three people were killed and two were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported.
13:51 Rescuers have pulled the bodies of two people from under the rubble of a destroyed hotel in the city of Nikolaevka in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk Oblast, which Russians attacked the previous evening, the State Emergency Service reported. Radio Liberty reports that the deceased were animal volunteers from a public organization who were helping homeless animals.
12:58 The death toll from the Russian strike on Poltava on September 3 has increased to 58 - three more wounded died in hospitals, said OVA head Filipp Pronin.
11:15 Cyber ​​specialists of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense attacked a number of Russian resources involved in waging war against Ukraine, the department reported. The enterprises that produced elements for the electronic base, other spare parts for Russian weapons, and metalworking equipment were hit. The resources of companies involved in the construction of military infrastructure facilities were also damaged. As a result of the cyber operation, the Main Intelligence Directorate specialists gained access to 14 servers and destroyed the internal infrastructure of the attacked targets by erasing system files, databases, and backup copies.
10:07 In Donetsk Oblast, five people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on September 7: three in Konstantinovka, one each in Petrovka and Shcherbinovka. Another 11 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. Suspilne reports, citing Vladimir Proskunin, deputy head of the Nikolaev GVA, that the Russian army dropped three aerial bombs on the Zarya Hotel in the city of Nikolaevka near Slavyansk on the evening of September 7.
09:54 Romania is checking the places where the Russian drone could have fallen during today's attack, the country's Defense Ministry reported. It noted that at night during the Russian attack, two F-16 aircraft flew to the border with Ukraine for monitoring. The surveillance system detected the Russian drone that flew into Romania. It returned to Ukraine, but the probable impact zone is being checked. Residents of the regions bordering Ukraine received a warning about the danger of falling objects.
09:26 Russian troops attacked Kamyshany in the Kherson region at night, four people were wounded, the OVA reported. Over the previous day, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, one person was killed and nine were wounded.
09:13 Air defense destroyed 15 of 23 Shahed attack UAVs and one of four Kh-59 guided air missiles at night, the Air Force reported. In addition, two enemy drones were lost (probably fell under the influence of electronic warfare systems), and three Kh-59 missiles did not reach their targets as a result of "active counteraction." Air defense operated in the Odessa, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
08:38 As a result of yesterday's Russian shelling of the village of Staroverovka in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region, one person was killed and five were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another five people were injured as a result of enemy shelling of Malaya Danilovka in the Kharkiv district, one in the village of Novoosinovo in the Kupyansk district, and another in the village of Vysshee Solenoye in the Izyum district. In addition, on the evening of September 7, Russians shelled the village of Kovsharovka in the Kupyansk district, one person was killed.
08:15 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 8:
- personnel - about 625,260 (+1270) people,
- tanks - 8636 (+4),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,897 (+19),
- artillery systems - 17,804 (+30),
- MLRS - 1180 (+2),
- air defense systems - 942 (+0),
- aircraft - 368 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 14,864 (+80),
- cruise missiles - 2588 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 24,218 (+47),
- special equipment - 3047 (+10).
07:42 On the evening of September 7, the Russian army fired heavy artillery at the Mirovskaya and Marganets communities of the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region - one person was killed, two were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak.
05:19 The enemy carried out an air strike on the city of Sumy - two people were killed, four were wounded, including two children, OVA reported.
04:58 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russian army captured the village of Sin'kovka during offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Svatovo-Kremennaya line. The Russians also advanced near Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk direction and on the islands in the Dnieper delta in the Kherson region.
00:10 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has captured the village of Nevelskoye northeast of Krasnogorovka.