Operational update regarding the russian invasion as of 06:00, on October 9, 2022

The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on attempts to disrupt the counteroffensive actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, at the same time, periodically conducts offensive actions. So, almost forty combat clashes took place during the day. The most tense situation was observed in the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions, where our defenders repelled more than 30 enemy attacks.

The enemy fires at the positions of our troops along the contact line, carries out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions in certain directions, and conducts aerial reconnaissance by UAVs.

The enemy continues to violate the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of warfare. Thus, during the past day, the occupiers launched 3 rocket and 26 air strikes, carried out more than 75 MLRS  attacks from rocket salvo systems. At night, the russian occupiers cynically struck the residential buildings and civil infrastructure of Zaporizhzhya. Information about the victims is being clarified, but it is already known about dozens of dead and injured.

In addition, more than thirty settlements were damaged by fire. In particular, Kharkiv, Chasiv Yar, Popivka, Hrabovskoe, Makiyivka, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Ivanhrad, Opytne, Klishchyiivka, Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar, Nikopol, Urozhaine and Davydiv Brid.

There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.

In other directions, the enemy fired mortars and barrel artillery in the areas of populated areas:

• in the Siversky direction - Lypivka and Mykolaivka of Chernihiv oblast and Lisne and Ryasne of Sumy oblast;
• in the Slobozhansk direction - Chervona Zorya, Veterynarne, Strilecha, Krasne, Ohirtseve, Hlyboke, Zelene, Starytsa, Ternova and Chuhunivka;
• in the Kramatorsk direction – Pershotravneve, Novoyehoryvka, Makiyivka, Nove, Terny, Serebryanka, Bilohorivka and Hryhorivka;
• in the Bakhmut direction – Verkhnyokamianske, Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Ivanhrad, Zaitseve, Vershyn, Zelenopillya and Opytne;
• in the Avdiyivka direction – Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka.
• In the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions, the infrastructure of more than twenty-five settlements was damaged by enemy shelling. Among them - Solodke, Zelene Pole, Novosilka, Vuhledar, Pobyeda. At the same time, as a result of the defeat by the Defense Forces of the concentration of the enemy's manpower, more than twenty enemy soldiers were confirmed wounded, who were taken to the local hospital of the city of Tokmak.

Areas of more than forty-five settlements near the contact line were shelled in the South Buh direction. Among others, Sukhy Stavok, Kvitneve, Myrne, Zorya and Ternovi Pody.

The enemy and its henchmen are fleeing, frightened by the successes of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Representatives of the occupying authorities of Nova Kakhovka are taking their families to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. According to available information, on October 7, a convoy of 12 minibuses left for the city of Sevastopol. A similar situation is observed in the Luhansk region. Thus, collaborators began to be evacuated from Starobilsk to Luhansk.

The occupiers continue to put pressure on small and medium-sized businesses in the temporarily occupied territories. Since the beginning of October, in the city of Horlivka, the tax inspectorate of the russian federation has started inspections with subsequent raiding of companies with detected violations. In particular, this applies to entrepreneurs who did not want to re-register their companies in accordance with russian legislation.

Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have repelled enemy attacks in Terne, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Ivanhrad, Pervomaisk, Opytne, Nevelske and Pobyeda settlements.

Aviation of the Defense Forces made more than thirty strikes. In particular, twenty-four on the areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment and nine on the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems. In addition, our air defense units shot down five UAVs.

Missile forces and artillery during the past day hit two control points, nine areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, three warehouses with ammunition and eleven other important objects.