Ukrainian defenders are holding back the advance of the Russian occupiers, who are not abandoning their goals. The defense forces destroy the personnel and equipment of the invaders.
Friday, February 9, is already the 716th day of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Read about the most important things for this day in the material 24 channels.
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09:58, 09 February
SBU conducts searches in Lavra
Sources 24 channels note that the SBU is conducting searches on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
Special officers came to the clergyman, who is suspected of coordinating the staged protests.
Let us remember that they took place during the process of returning the Lavra’s property to the state.
09:43, 09 February
Carlson, in an interview with Putin, asked a question about Russia’s goals in the war against Ukraine. To this, the Kremlin leader began to talk again about the “denazification” that needs to be carried out in our state: to ban the neo-Nazi movements that allegedly exist in Ukraine.
“Denazification. After gaining Independence, Ukraine began to search, as some analysts in the West say, for its identity. And it couldn’t come up with anything better than to put the false heroes who collaborated with Hitler at the forefront of this identity,” said the president of a hostile state.
He also admitted that Russia has not achieved its “goals” for almost 2 years.
09:42, 09 February
The Air Force reported that Russian Tu-95s performed a maneuver in the area of the launch lines. Actually, there is a threat of a missile attack from the enemy.
09:26, 09 February
NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov said that there were no Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Russian Il-76, which crashed on January 24 in the Belgorod region.
“Were our prisoners there, I can tell you for sure – no,” the official stated.
09:13, 09 February
Russia on the outskirts of Avdeevka
The head of the Avdeevka State Military Administration, Vitaly Barabash, confirmed that the Russian occupiers are indeed entering the outskirts of the city, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to resist.
The enemy’s strength is many times greater. However, Avdeevka did not fall,
– he said.
According to the official, the enemy’s main task now is to cut off the Avdeevka coke plant from the city.
08:19, 09 February
Press Secretary of the Southern Defense Forces Natalya Gumenyuk stated that at night the enemy also attacked the southern regions with drones. The Kherson and Nikolaev regions were targeted. Air defense destroyed 4 UAVs, but, unfortunately, there were hits.
07:59, 09 February
Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liquidated 910 invaders. In total, since the beginning of the great war – 393,290 Russian soldiers.
07:45, 09 February
Air defense work
The Air Force reported that it destroyed 10 of 16 Shahed-type drones that attacked Ukraine at night.
07:40, 09 February
Chairman of the OVA Sinegubov published footage of the consequences of the attack on the Zmievskaya community in the Kharkov region.
“Rescuers extinguished fires in the hotel building, the summer area of the restaurant and 3 cars,” he wrote, adding that a civilian man was injured. He was treated on the spot.
Zmievskaya community after an enemy attack: OVA video
06:43, 09 February
Fire at the Ilsky Oil Refinery
In the Krasnodar region of Russia, explosions occurred at the Ilsky oil refinery. Before this, there were reports of drones in the region.
Large-scale fire at the Ilsky Oil Refinery: watch the video
05:27, 09 February
Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yuriy Sobolevsky says that Russians are preparing for the so-called presidential “elections”, which should take place in March of this year.
They brought even more National Guardsmen to the temporarily occupied territories, supposedly to “ensure public order,” but in fact in order to put pressure on the Ukrainians.
02:29, 09 February
Putin’s interview with American conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson has been released. In it, the Russian President did not say anything new, furthermore declaring that it was “not his state” that started the war in 2022.
“Everything came to this situation when in Ukraine they announced: no, we will not carry out anything. They also began preparations for military action. They started the war in 2014. Our goal is to stop this war. And we did not start it in 2022 , this is an attempt to stop it,” the Kremlin leader said.
In addition, he called Ukraine a “satellite of the United States,” and Kyiv would allegedly still have to negotiate with Moscow.
01:29, 09 February
Assistant to the US Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander commented on the appointment of Alexander Syrsky to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
She called him an experienced and successful commander. Wallander also emphasized: “Ukraine, unlike Russia, has democratic civilian control over the military.”
00:48, 09 February
Fire in Moscow
Telegram channels write about the fire in Moscow. The roof of a six-story residential building caught fire on Leningradsky Prospekt near the Airport metro station.
According to the occupiers, the residents of the house were evacuated.
00:09, 09 February
Attack on Ukraine
The Air Force warned of another wave of Shaheds, which the Russians began launching on the evening of February 8. In particular, there was a danger for residents of the Kharkov and Nikolaev regions.
Subsequently, it became known that as a result of the shelling, a fire occurred in the civilian non-residential infrastructure in the Zmiev community in the Kharkov region.
2024-02-09 06:28:50
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