Yevhen Ustimenko
Emergency power outages have been canceled in Kyiv and the region, but up to 50% of the capital's consumers remain without electricity. Emergency blackouts continue in most regions of the country due to the consequences of missile and drone attacks.
Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Research Center, stated that Ukraine may not have enough equipment to restore the energy system after several Russian strikes. He noted that there are currently no resources for massive restoration of reserves.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the Russian dictator does not seek to restore the USSR and attack NATO. He emphasized that this is impossible, although earlier Putin called the collapse of the USSR "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century."
Russian occupiers are trying to infiltrate the northern part of Pokrovsk, taking advantage of the fog. Search and assault operations are underway and the enemy is being eliminated in urban areas.
Russian occupiers are trying to infiltrate in the direction of Siversk in Donetsk region, using small group tactics. They are taking advantage of their numerical superiority and weather conditions for covert movement between Ukrainian positions.
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces successfully hit enemy targets in the occupied territories on the night of December 8. A UAV depot of the 9th Russian brigade in Donetsk and 6,000 m³ of fuel in Simeikino, Luhansk region, were destroyed.
The Cabinet of Ministers is preparing a decision on the redistribution of consumption and the direction of electricity for household consumers. Currently, three queues of hourly shutdown schedules are in effect throughout Ukraine.
An oil spill occurred in the port of occupied Mariupol due to the actions of the Russian company "Orentex" during the lifting of a dredge. The damage amounted to over 2 million rubles, and the company was fined 250 thousand rubles for working without approval.
A Russian Ministry of Defense An-22 military transport aircraft with 7 crew members on board crashed in Russia. The crash site is being clarified, with reports indicating either the Moscow or Ivanovo regions.
On December 9, electricity consumption in Ukraine is increasing, but due to enemy shelling, consumers in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy regions remain without power. Emergency shutdowns have been introduced in Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv regions, and hourly schedules of outages and power limitations for industrial consumers are in effect throughout the country.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Italy for a meeting with Pope Leo XIV in Castel Gandolfo. A meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is also planned.
The SBU exposed two agents of Russian military intelligence who committed arson of an administrative building in Chernivtsi region. The attackers planned a series of similar arsons in western Ukraine.
The Lviv City Council denied information that a Russian-speaking child was not given a gift on St. Nicholas Day. Andriy Zakalyuk, Director of the Department of Education and Culture, stated that there were no such cases in Lviv's municipal kindergartens.
On the night of November 9, UAVs attacked a number of Russian regions, including Cheboksary and Rostov Oblast. Strikes were recorded on the Energosapchast JSC plant and energy infrastructure, which led to power outages.
The European Union may announce a decision on the confiscation of frozen Russian assets within two weeks. These funds, up to 100 billion pounds sterling, or over 130 billion US dollars, include 8 billion pounds sterling (over 10 billion dollars) in the United Kingdom and are intended to provide funding for aid to Ukraine.
Ukraine's Universal Bank, part of Serhiy Tihipko's TAS group, held a meeting with international fixed-income investors. The meeting, organized by Morgan Stanley, could potentially allow the bank to quickly issue new bonds to the market.
An ancient pleasure boat, matching the description of the Greek historian Strabo, was discovered off the coast of the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The vessel lay 7 meters underwater and 1.5 meters under sediment near the sunken island of Antirhodos.
Soldiers of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine denied involvement in the dam explosion in the Pryvillia area of Donetsk region. They stated that the video was published on a Russian Telegram channel, and the dam was destroyed by a Russian aerial bomb on November 27.
The US Congress has provided $800 million in aid to Ukraine in the defense budget for two years, allocating $400 million each for 2026 and 2027. The total US defense budget for 2026 will be $901 billion.
The issue of territory is the "most problematic" in negotiations to end the war, as Russia seeks full control over the occupied lands. Ukraine cannot agree to the terms of Washington and Moscow without agreeing on the details, while the US continues to exert pressure.
Warsaw police detained three Ukrainian citizens who were traveling across Europe with hacking equipment and a spy device detector. They have been charged with fraud and possession of equipment for committing crimes.
As a result of the Russian strike on December 7 in Zaporizhzhia, the number of victims increased to 7 people. Doctors are providing all necessary assistance.
Statements about Russia's agreement to US President Donald Trump's peace plan are an illusion. Russia is buying time to continue offensive attempts on the front until spring.
On Tuesday, November 9, wet snow and cold weather are expected in Ukraine. Wet snow is likely in Chernihiv, Sumy, eastern, Poltava, and sometimes Cherkasy regions, while rain will prevail in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and western regions.
A 36-year-old man, wanted abroad for a number of crimes, including organizing an illegal gambling business and assaulting a client, has been extradited to Ukraine. He faces up to ten years in prison with confiscation of property.
Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, refuted information from the UN and Eurostat regarding a sharp increase in the number of Ukrainians who left the country in the autumn. According to his data, passenger traffic decreased from 4.4 million in August to 2.6 million in November, with 85% of crossings made by Ukrainian citizens.
The prosecutor's office is demanding life imprisonment for a man who committed sexual violence against a 13-year-old child in Kryvyi Rih in 2023. The Pokrovsky District Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison, but juvenile prosecutors are preparing an appeal to change the verdict.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not make a decision regarding the new Head of the Presidential Office until his return from his foreign visit. People's Deputy Yaroslav Zhelezniak reported that the country has lived 10 days without a head of the Presidential Office after Andriy Yermak's dismissal.
A Russian LNG plant on the Baltic Sea coast has delivered gas to China for the first time since the introduction of US sanctions. The vessel Valera arrived at the Beihai import terminal, indicating strengthening energy cooperation between the countries.
Great Britain and its allies plan to use Fathom underwater gliders and Project Atlantic Bastion to defend the Atlantic from Russia. This involves the use of artificial intelligence and state-of-the-art anti-submarine sensor technologies.