Russia – Ukraine war operational update of the General Staff of Ukraine for the last 24 hours of Russia – Ukraine war as of 6:00 a.m., April 9, 2023.
410 day of the russian large-scale invasion has begun.
Over the past day, russian occupiers has launched 4 missile and 40 air strikes, launched 58 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and the civilian infrastructure of populated areas.
The probability of launching missile and air strikes will continue to be high throughout the territory of Ukraine, because the enemy does not stop using terror tactics.
The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Marin directions. Over the past day, thanks to the courage of each soldier, more than 50 enemy attacks were repelled in the indicated directions.
On the Volyn, Polyiske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly, and no signs of formations of enemy offensive groups have been detected.
The enemy will continue to maintain a military presence in the Kursk and Belgorod regions bordering Ukraine. In the border areas of the Kursk region, the enemy continues to engineer the terrain.
During the past day, the enemy shelled the settlements of Gremyach, Chernihiv region; Seredyna-Buda, Baranivka, Bezsalivka, Volfine, Turya, Vysoke of the Sumy region, as well as Veterinarne, Graniv, Vilkhivka, Ternova, Staritsa, Vovchansk, Karaichne and Chugunivka settlements in the Kharkiv region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the settlements of Kolodyazne, Krasne Pershe, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Krokhmalne, Kindrashivka, Pischane and Berestov of the Kharkiv region were hit by enemy fire.
On the Lyman direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the area south of Kuzmyny and Verkhnyokamyansky last day. Cherneshchyna of the Kharkiv region was hit by artillery fire; Makiivka, Nevske, Dibrova, Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Kolodyazi, Yampolivka, Torske, Siversk, Spirne of the Donetsk region.
On the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy continues to conduct offensive actions, tries to take full control of the city of Bakhmut, battles continue. During the day, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of the Bohdanivka settlement. The units of the defense forces repelled about 10 enemy attacks on the indicated section of the front. More than 15 settlements were damaged by enemy shelling. Among them: Vasyukivka, Minkivka, Zaliznyanske, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Markove, Hryhorivka, Bakhmut, Khromove, Chasiv Yar, Ivanivske, Stupochki, Bila Gora, Novodmytrivka and Druzhba of the Donetsk region.
The enemy carried out offensive actions on the Avdyivka and Maryinka directions in the districts of Novokalynovy, Severnoy, Pervomaisky and Maryinka of the Donetsk region, had no success. The fiercest battles on the indicated part of the front continue for Maryinka, where more than 15 enemy attacks were repulsed. At the same time, Novokalynove, Kamianka, Stepove, Orlivka, Lastochkine, Avdiyivka, Severne, Netaylove, Karlivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Pobyeda and Paraskoviivka of the Donetsk region were subjected to enemy shelling.
During the day, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations on the Shakhtarsky direction. Shelled the settlements of Novomykhailivka, Shakhtarske, Novoukrainka, Velyka Novosilka, Vugledar, Prechistivka, Zolota Niva, and Novomayorske in the Donetsk region.
On the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson directions, the enemy continues to build up defensive lines and positions in terms of fortification. Fired more than 40 settlements near the battle line. Among them are Vremivka, Novopil of the Donetsk region; Novosilka, Olhivske, Malinivka, Chervone, Gulyaipole, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Stepove, Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region; Dudchany, Kachkarivka, Beryslav, Kozatske, Mykolaivka, Ivanivka, Mykilske, Komysany, Bilozerka, Dniprovske of the Kherson region, as well as Kherson.
The russian occupiers continue to strengthen the counter-intelligence and police regime in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region. In particular, in the Hornostaiv district of the Kherson region, raids are underway to check the personal phones of the local population for the presence of photo and video materials, as well as “forbidden” content. During such inspections, the occupiers record the personal data of local residents and selectively search their homes.
During the past day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 12 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers. Also, our defenders shot down 2 UAVs of the “Supercam” type, 6 UAVs of the “Orlan-10” type and 6 UAVs of the “Zala” type.
Units of missile troops and artillery hit 2 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 1 ammunition depot, 1 position of anti-aircraft defense equipment and 5 radio-electronic warfare stations of the enemy.
Last, but not the least, during the last day russia’s losses in manpower was the following:
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