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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,295: decline in drone/missile attacks from 823 to 142 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-08
Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of September 7 to 8.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 142 Shahed- and Gerber-type strike and decoy drones, including over 100 Shahed-type drones, from the directions of Bryansk and Oryol cities; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; and occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea.[86] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian air defenses downed or suppressed 112 drones. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that 26 drones struck seven locations throughout Ukraine and that drone debris fell on one location. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on September 8 that Russian forces are conducting a renewed strike campaign concentrated against Ukrainian energy infrastructure ahead of Winter 2025-2026.[87] Ukrainian officials, including the Ukrainian Energy Ministry, and Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, reported that Russian drones damaged civilian and energy infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv oblasts.[88]
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Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian air defenses downed or suppressed 112 drones. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that 26 drones struck seven locations throughout Ukraine and that drone debris fell on one location
Unknown actors reportedly detonated two explosives near a Russian military base near Khabarovsk City on September 8. Sources in the Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) told Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne that two explosive devices detonated on the morning of September 8 in the parking lot of the headquarters of the Russian 748th Separate Operational Battalion of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia, also known as military unit 6912) in Khabarovsk City.[17] GUR sources noted that the explosions resulted in deaths and injuries to Russian military personnel, who were arriving for duty in the morning. Ukrainian investigative journalists noted that servicemembers of 748th Separate Operational Battalion committed war crimes in Bucha and Irpin, Kyiv Oblast in early 2022.[18]
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