The aggressor 

Russia 

's army is  trying to take full control of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyan, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Novopavli directions in the Kreminna, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Opytne, Maryinka and Vugledar districts.

Actively uses operational-tactical and army aviation to launch strikes on the positions of our troops.

Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka and Belogorivka of the Luhansk region;

Viymka, Fedorivka, Bakhmut, Krasna Gora, Paraskoviivka, Ivanivske, Chasiv Yar, Novokalynove, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Vesele, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Maryinka, Bogoyavlenka and Prechistivka in the Donetsk region and Novoandriivka in Zaporizhzhia.

More details about the situation at the front - in the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on February 9.

During the day, the Russian occupiers launched 3 rockets and 45 airstrikes, as a result of which 3 civilians were killed and three others are in serious condition.

In addition, the enemy carried out 67 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in particular, on civilian infrastructure in the Kherson region.

The threat of further Russian air and missile attacks on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high, the General Staff emphasizes.

The situation in the directions:

No signs of the formation of offensive groups were found

in the

Volyn, Polis, Siver and Slobozhan directions .

Areas of more than 40 settlements were shelled, in particular, Gai of the Chernihiv region;

Zarutske, Vovkivka, Atynske, Stukalyvka, Sokhany, Pavlivka, Yunakivka, Sadky and Myropilla in Sumy Oblast and Uda, Chervona Zorya, Krasne, Liptsi, Staritsa, Vovchansk, Varvarivka, Verkhnya Pisarivka, Ambarne, Figolivka, Krasne Pershe, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna and Zapadne in Kharkiv region.

There are deaths and injuries among the civilian population, and a large number of civilian residential buildings have been damaged.

Areas of more than 25 settlements were affected by fire in the Kupian

and

Lyman directions .

Among them are Kupyansk, Synkivka, Kucherivka, Pischane, Kurylivka, Kislivka, Tabaivka and Berestovka in Kharkiv region and Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Chervonpopivka, Kreminna, Kuzmyne, Dibrova and Bilogorivka in Luhansk region.

The enemy carried out airstrikes near Kotlyarivka and Tabaivka in the Kharkiv region and Serebryansk Forestry in Luhansk.

In

the direction of Bakhmut

, in particular, Spirne, Berestov, Bilogorivka, Rozdolivka, Vasyukivka, Krasna Gora, Bakhmut, Bohdanivka, Ivanovske, Mykolaivka, Klishchiivka, Ozaryanivka, Oleksandro-Shultine and Vesele in Donetsk region came under fire.

In total, there are more than 30 settlements.

The occupiers also carried out airstrikes near Spirny.

On the

Avdiiv and Novopavliv areas

, more than 20 settlements came under enemy fire, in particular, Petrivka, Kamianka, Avdiivka, Severne, Tonenke, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Bogoyavlenka, Prechistivka, and Vugledar of the Donetsk region.

Airstrikes were carried out near Avdiyivka, Vesely, Krasnohorivka and Ugledar.

In

the Zaporizhzhia direction

, Vremivka and Novopil of Donetsk region and Olhivske, Malynivka, Chervone, Gulyaipole, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Novoandriivka, Shcherbaki, Stepove and Kamianske in Zaporizhzhia were damaged by fire.

In

the Kherson direction

, the areas of Novooleksandrivka, Havrylivka, Chervyn Mayak, Zmiivka, Shlyakhove, Beryslav, Odradokamianka, Lviv, Tyaginka, Ponyativka, Antonivka, Komysany, Yantarne, Berehove, Veletenske and Kherson were affected by enemy fire.

In the village of Kohane, Vasylivsky District, Zaporizhzhia Region, the Russian occupying forces are engaged in mass looting.

During the past 24 hours, the Air Force of the Defense Forces made 21 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers and 3 strikes on the positions of anti-aircraft missile systems.

And our gunners and rocket launchers hit 2 enemy control points, 3 manpower concentration areas, 3 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems, 2 ammunition warehouses and a warehouse of fuel and lubricants.

It will be recalled that the American analysts of the Institute for the Study of War believe that the Russian military command is setting unrealistic deadlines and 

is in a hurry to launch an offensive to capture the Donetsk region

.

The occupying army does not have sufficient combat power.

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