The Russian strike on a supermarket in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka left at least two dead and 17 injured, according to a report released by the Ukrainian governor of the Donetsk region on Friday, August 9. Vadym Filachkin specified on Telegram that the rescue operations “continue”. Follow our live.
Ukraine claims to have struck “successfully”“a Russian military airbase. Moscow said it had been hit by numerous drone attacks overnight, particularly in the Lipetsk region, which is nearly 300 kilometres from the border with Ukraine. “During the attack, depots with guided aerial bombs and other facilities in the area of the airbase were hit”the Ukrainian General Staff said.
Ukrainian drones shot down in border regions and Crimea. Russian air defenses have also shot down 29 Ukrainian drones in the border region of Belgorod, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram, reporting material damage. Finally, in Sevastopol, on the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev reported attacks by air and sea drones.
A Ukrainian army raid into Russia. Since Tuesday, more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers, around ten tanks and around twenty armoured vehicles have been taking part in an incursion into the Russian region of Kursk. “Russia brought war to our country and should feel it” the effects, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his speech on Thursday evening, without directly mentioning the incursion.