47 events (8 confirmed) and 35 statements.
Odesa city military administration head Serhii Lysak said a morning strike on an infrastructure facility killed three people, a site regional head Oleh Kiper said was a warehouse storing food for local kindergartens and schools, and Kyiv regional head Tymur Tkachenko said an attack in Vyshhorod district killed an 82-year-old woman, by preliminary information. [1][2] Kherson regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said shelling of Kherson's Korabelnyi district killed an 87-year-old woman, and the press service of the Russian-run Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant said a drone killed an electrical technician on his way to work in Enerhodar, while the IAEA said a plant employee was killed by a drone. [1][2] In the evening DTEK said an attack damaged key energy equipment in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and left large parts of Dnipro and Kamianske without power, Donetskoblgaz said fighting damaged a trunk gas pipeline and left more than 50,000 customers in Donetsk Oblast without gas, and Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said a Shahed drone injured six people in the city. [1][2][3] Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 317 drones from the evening of 8 November and that 271 were shot down or jammed, Centrenergo said Russia struck the Trypilska thermal power plant again, and Leningrad governor Alexander Drozdenko said drones hit the industrial zone of Kirishi and caused a fire on the KINEF grounds. [1][2][3] Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov named Vladimir Medinsky to head Russia's delegation to talks with Ukraine and the US in Abu Dhabi on 10 to 11 November, and the UN Security Council met on Ukraine. [1][2]
Places in this day's records
22 places · 29 events not on the map
Country-wide (shaded): Ukraine · Russia
Country-wide: Poland
Wider areas: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast · Donetsk oblast · Belgorod oblast · Odesa oblast
Also, outside this view: Abu Dhabi · Lviv · New York, US · Sumy
New count
14
civilians killed, Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant staff
Rosatom · by its own count
as of 9 Nov
Statement
Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro said in a Financial Times interview that Russian acts in Europe should be regarded as state terrorism and that suspects in the August Milrem arson were recruited by Russia, European Pravda reported via Ukrainska Pravda.
Government of Estonia
9 Nov · to a mixed audience
Reported by Ukrainska Pravda
Open
Fixed site
Refinery · Russia
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Statements (35)
Government of Latvia: Latvian Defence Minister Raivis Melnis said that after a drone last week could not be shot down, procedures were reviewed and the decision chain shortened, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
Government of Turkey: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will keep discussing a Ukraine settlement with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, TASS reported, and in a telephone call with US President Donald Trump he offered Istanbul again as a venue, Interfax reported, citing Anadolu.
Government of Ukraine: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said he was travelling to the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris, would brief allies at a session on Ukraine on 10 November and expected bilateral talks including with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
Government of the United States: US President Donald Trump said in a CBS 60 Minutes interview that Ukraine will end up with a little bit different shape after the war and that he thinks it will be free and independent, Radio Svoboda and Meduza reported.
European Union (High Representative and EEAS): European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she was beginning a visit to the Black Sea region, to Romania and Bulgaria, where she said security threats are escalating, Ukrinform reported.
Government of Estonia: Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro said in a Financial Times interview that Russian acts in Europe should be regarded as state terrorism and that suspects in the August Milrem arson were recruited by Russia, European Pravda reported via Ukrainska Pravda.
Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's National Police said 55 bodies had been recovered from the rubble at Komyshuvakha after the 2 November air strike, that 30 of them had been identified and that up to 19 people may still be under the rubble, Ukrainska Pravda, Ukrinform and Interfax-Ukraine reported.
Government of Ukraine: President Volodymyr Zelensky said after a call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the EU will activate a special emergency response mechanism over power, water and heating, Ukrainska Pravda and Ukrinform reported. Radio Svoboda reported that the European Commission had not announced this.
Government of Russia: Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said Ukraine and its European sponsors are preparing for a prolonged conflict and not for peace, TASS reported.
Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's first deputy energy minister Artem Nekrasov said at a briefing that Russia targeted the energy and oil and gas sectors 128 times last week and that 219 incidents damaged or destroyed facilities, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
Government of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that from a geographical point of view Ukraine is already a different country and that the realities on the ground are obvious, Ukrainska Pravda and TASS reported.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said there were 140 clashes on the front line over the past day, Ukrinform and Radio Svoboda reported.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said Russian losses rose by 2,980 over the past day, Radio Svoboda and Ukrinform reported.
Government of Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the first item in Abu Dhabi will be the security of Russia, Ukraine and the region and that the talks will work on principles to be approved at the end of consultations, Interfax reported.
Government of Russia: Peskov said the Abu Dhabi talks will be trilateral, between Russia and Ukraine with the US as mediator, TASS reported.
Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said air defences shot down 430 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones from 17:00 UTC on 8 November to 05:00 UTC on 9 November over Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Oryol, Pskov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver and Tula regions and Crimea, TASS reported.
Rosatom: Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev said the electrical fitter killed at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was the fourth plant employee killed in two weeks and the fourteenth since April, and asked when Europe would see what Ukraine is doing, Interfax reported.
European Union (High Representative and EEAS): Valdis Dombrovskis of the European Commission said on the sidelines of an ECOFIN meeting that the Commission is exploring an additional 45 billion euro loan for Ukraine in 2027 toward a financing gap of about 70 billion euros, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing European Pravda's Brussels correspondent.
Government of Ukraine: President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address that Russia's attacks on bridges and the power grid seek to divide Ukraine along the Dnipro, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said Russian forces suffered their highest daily losses on 8 November, according to a Ukrainska Pravda headline.
Government of Ukraine: Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's presidential office, said on his way to Abu Dhabi that the humanitarian track, above all prisoner exchanges, would get major attention at the talks, that exchanges need to be intensified and that he hoped for a constructive dialogue, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
Government of Ukraine: Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said the power situation in Kyiv and Dnipro remains particularly difficult, that additional repair teams were formed and restoration runs around the clock, and that Russia changed its tactics against the grid this autumn, Interfax-Ukraine and Ukrinform reported.
Government of the United States: US deputy envoy Dan Negrea told the UN Security Council that Ukraine and Russia should end mutual strikes and refrain from retaliatory attacks and expressed condolences over the attacks on Komyshuvakha and a Kharkiv hospital, Ukrinform and Interfax-Ukraine reported. He said the Abu Dhabi talks should build on the results of the meetings in Kyiv and St Petersburg and that the US is committed to a comprehensive, lasting peace deal, Interfax-Ukraine reported.
Government of Ukraine: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X that a detained Ukrainian staff member of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission had been transferred to a medical-correctional facility in Russia's Tambov region and that, if confirmed, he would be the third such staff member moved from occupied territory to Russia, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Kyiv Independent reported.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Defence Forces of the South released video of a combined attack including drones on a base of Russia's Rubicon drone centre in Russian-held Berdiansk, and the General Staff said the strike on 7 November hit the unit's temporary deployment site and ground control station, Ukrainska Pravda reported. No Russian account was found.
Rosatom: Yevgenia Yashina, communications director of the Russian-run Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, said IAEA experts at the plant were informed that a plant electrical technician was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack, that he was the fourteenth plant employee killed since April, and that Ukrainian strikes on plant staff are a direct threat to nuclear safety, TASS and RIA Novosti reported.
United Nations: Kayoko Gotoh of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs told the Security Council that about 600,000 more people in eastern Ukraine lost power last weekend and cited the Secretary-General's call for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire, RBC-Ukraine reported.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said in its evening summary that there had been 148 combat clashes since the start of 9 November and that Russia carried out 48 air strikes and dropped 163 guided bombs, Radio Svoboda reported.
Government of Ukraine: Davyd Arakhamiia, a Ukrainian representative at the Abu Dhabi talks, said expectations for the first round were minimal and that hopes rest on a second round, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
International Atomic Energy Agency (Board of Governors and Director General): The IAEA said a Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant employee was killed by a drone, the second in a few days, and that a worker of the nearby Zaporizhzhia thermal power plant was also killed by a drone; Director General Rafael Grossi said attacks on nuclear plant workers must stop, RBC-Ukraine reported.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck the Morozov plant near St Petersburg on the night of 8 to 9 November, that the plant makes solid-fuel charges for Iskander-M missile engines and that three production shops were damaged, Ukrainska Pravda, Interfax-Ukraine, Radio Svoboda and Ukrinform reported.
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck a Russian Starlink jamming station in the Russian-held parts of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, ammunition storage points near Tokmak and Ostrykivka and a supply warehouse near Krasnohorivka in Donetsk Oblast on 8 November and the night of 8 to 9 November, Ukrainska Pravda reported. No Russian account was found.
Ministry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said its forces struck a drone assembly plant in Hlobyne, substations in Bila Tserkva, Kryvyi Rih and Cherkasy, a traction substation in Vinnytsia Oblast and a cargo ship in the Black Sea, TASS reported.
Government of Russia: Russia's UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia said Russia will stand firm on Ukraine and has the resources to achieve its goal, according to a TASS headline on his remarks at the Security Council.
Government of Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote in an article for Kommersant that the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up under the direction of handlers in London, TASS reported, and a TASS headline on the same article said he wrote that Ukraine ignores Trump's calls to stop provoking an energy crisis.
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