🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on April 8-9

Ukrainian units made another attempt to strike the Crimean peninsula from the Hrim-2 operational-tactical missile system.

The missile, fired from the Alibey firing range, was shot down by an S-300 SAM system near Feodosiya.

▪️Ukrainian units continue shelling the border areas of Belgorod Region.

The villages Arkhangel'skoe and Voznesenovka of the Shebekinsky city district, as well as Tishanka of the Volokonovsky district, came under AFU's shelling.

▪️In Bakhmut, Wagner PMC's assault groups continue to push the enemy in the northern quarters.

Russian forces almost completely control the Internat area and are fighting at the railway tracks fork.

▪️In the city center, the Wagner PMC advanced in the direction of the Saltovsʹkyy M'yasokombinat and the Avtostantsiya.

Fierce fighting continues at the train station and the Church of All Saints, which are under the AFU control.

▪️In the south of Bakhmut, Russian units are fighting for control of the territory of School №2 and School №40 on Chajkovskogo St.

The liberation of this section will allow to cut off the city from the AFU grouping in Ivanivske and block one of the supply routes.

▪️Ukrainian units continue to conduct artillery shelling of Donetsk agglomeration cities.

Apartment buildings and a daycare center in Yasinovataya were hit. Two people were killed and 14 people were wounded.

▪️Russian troops hit hangars with HIMARS MLRS and NATO barrel artillery on the elevator territory in Orikhiv.

With a high degree of probability, military equipment was redeployed for use in the upcoming counteroffensive.