Russia – Ukraine war updates as of May 9, 2025
Russia – Ukraine war latest updates from the General Staff of Ukraine as of May 9, 2025.
1,171 day of the russian large-scale invasion and 4,084 day of the russia’s war against Ukraine begins.
Operational information as of 8:00 a.m. May 9, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion.
The 1171st day of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.
In total, 193 combat clashes were recorded over the past day.
The russian enemy launched one missile and 18 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, used one missile and dropped 32 CABs. In addition, it carried out almost 4,000 attacks, 67 of them from multiple launch rocket systems, and used 2,659 kamikaze drones to destroy them.
The aggressor carried out air strikes, in particular, on the areas of the settlements of Brusky, Boyaro-Lezhachi, Vorozhba, Yastrubyne, Bilopillya, Nova Sloboda in the Sumy region.
Over the past day, the aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck 16 areas of concentration of personnel and equipment of the Russian invaders, two command posts, five artillery pieces, a military supply warehouse and four other important objects of the occupiers.
In the Kharkiv direction, our troops repelled four enemy attacks in the Vovchansk area.
In the Kupyansk direction, four attacks by the occupiers also took place in the past day. The defense forces repelled enemy assault actions near Synkivka, Stepovaya Novoselivka, Novaya Kruglyakivka and in the direction of Novoosynovoye.
In the Lymansk direction, the enemy attacked 27 times. It tried to advance near the settlements of Nadiya, Novoyehorivka, Ridkodub, Hrekivka, Novomykhailivka, Kolodyazi, Zelena Dolyna and Torske.
Five enemy assault actions in the areas of Bilogorivka and Fedorivka were repelled by Ukrainian defenders in the Siversk direction.
In the Kramatorsk direction, six clashes were recorded in the areas of Chasiv Yar and Kurdyumivka.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out nine attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces near Krymske and Toretsk.
In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders stopped 71 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Oleksandropil, Yelizavetivka, Grodivka, Myrolyubivka, Dachenske, Zvirovo, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novooleksandrivka, Kotlyarivka, Preobrazhenka and Andriivka.
In the Novopavlivsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 28 enemy attacks near Rozlyv, Novoselka, Novopol, Pryvilny, Burlatsky and in the direction of Odradne.
In the Orikhivsky direction, our defenders repelled three enemy assaults in the areas of Stepove and Shcherbaky.
In the Dnieper direction, the aggressor units made five unsuccessful attempts to advance to the positions of our troops.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 19 attacks by Russian invaders in the Kursk direction. In addition, the enemy launched 9 air strikes using 17 guided bombs, and also carried out 274 artillery attacks on the positions of our troops and settlements, in particular six from multiple launch rocket systems.
No enemy offensive actions were recorded in the Gulyai-Pil direction over the past day.
No signs of the formation of offensive groups of the aggressor were detected in the Volyn and Polesie directions.
Our soldiers inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupation forces, and actively undermine the enemy’s offensive potential in the rear.
In total, over the past day, the losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1,300 soldiers. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized four tanks, four armored combat vehicles, 36 artillery systems, one MLRS, an air defense system, 39 operational-tactical-level UAVs, and 120 units of automotive equipment.
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