Total of 63 combat clashes occur on front line over past 24 hours – General Staff report
A total of 63 combat clashes occurred on the front line over the past 24 hours. The Russians tried to break through Ukraine’s defences on the Novopavlivka front 22 times.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 9 March
Details: The Russians launched eight missile attacks and 107 airstrikes. Ukrainian positions and populated areas came under fire from multiple-launch rocket systems 113 times.
Over the past day, airstrikes targeted the settlements of Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and the city of Kherson.
More than 140 settlements in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts came under artillery shelling.
In the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group on the Kupiansk front, the Russians carried out three attacks in the vicinity of Synkivka and Kyslivka (Kharkiv Oblast), trying to improve their tactical situation.
On the Lyman front, Ukrainian troops repelled five Russian attacks near Terny and Spirne (Donetsk Oblast).
On the Bakhmut front, Ukraine's Defence Forces repelled nine Russian attacks near Andriivka and Klishchiivka (Donetsk Oblast).
In the area of responsibility of the Tavriia Operational Strategic Group on the Avdiivka front, Ukrainian defenders repelled 15 Russian attacks near Berdychi, Orlivka, Tonenke, Pervomaiske and Nevelske (Donetsk Oblast).
On the Novopavlivka front, Ukrainian forces are continuing to hold back the Russians near Pobieda, Krasnohorivka and Novomykhailivka (Donetsk Oblast), where the Russians tried to break through the defences of Ukrainian troops 22 times.
On the Orikhiv front, Ukrainian defenders repelled eight Russian attacks near Robotyne and west of Verbove (Zaporizhzhia Oblast).
In the area of responsibility of the Odesa Operational Strategic Group on the Kherson front, Ukraine's Defence Forces are continuing to hold their positions.
At the same time, Ukraine's Air Force struck 10 areas where Russian personnel, weapons and military equipment were concentrated.
In addition, 12 out of 15 Shahed attack drones that the Russians launched at Ukraine were shot down.
Units from Ukraine’s Rocket Forces and Artillery struck one area where Russian weapons and military equipment were concentrated, one command post, three electronic warfare systems, including two Zhitel jamming systems, one Solntsepyok heavy multiple-launch rocket system and one ammunition storage point.
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