Map of the special operation in Ukraine on June 9th

A special military operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass has been conducted by Russia since February 24, 2022. You can track the progress of the joint forces of Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as the map of military operations for June 9 in the Izvestia material.

Russian military personnel continue to conduct a special military operation. Units of the North group of forces improved their tactical situation by defeating the manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), two air defense brigades and a National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Ivolzhanskoe, Khoten, Petrushevka and Novaya Sich, Sumy region. In the Kharkiv region, formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the air defense brigade and the National Guard brigade in the areas of Pisarevka, Liptsov, Ryasny and Losevka were affected. The enemy lost more than 240 soldiers and 17 vehicles.

The units of the "Southern" group of Forces have improved their tactical situation. Formations of two mechanized, airmobile and mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaevka, Starodubovka, Malinovka, Rai-Alexandrovka and Piskunovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. The enemy lost over 115 soldiers, an armored combat vehicle, 18 vehicles, three artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.

The units of the Center group of forces have improved their position along the front line. The manpower and equipment of the mechanized, airborne brigades, the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the marine brigade and two National Guard brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Dobropole, Svyatogorovka, Sergeyevka, Kucherov Yar, Vasilevka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Novopodgorodnoye of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 325 soldiers, three armored combat vehicles and eight vehicles.

The units of the Vostok group of forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy's defenses. The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, assault, amphibious assault brigades and two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Gavrilovka, Velikomikhailovka, Kolomiytsy, Dnipropetrovsk region, Lesnoye, Nezhenka and Lyubitskoye, Zaporizhia region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 345 military personnel, three armored combat vehicles, 11 vehicles and two self-propelled artillery installations.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the air defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov, Kirovo and Grigorovka, Zaporizhia region. Up to 75 military personnel, an armored combat vehicle, 14 vehicles and four electronic warfare stations were destroyed.

Tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated ammunition and fuel depots, transport and energy infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as temporary locations of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas. Nine guided aerial bombs, two US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and 551 aircraft-type drones were shot down by air defense systems.

Planning groundwork: aviation began hunting for enemy UAV command posts

To destroy them, aircraft use high-precision bombs with UMPC modules.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 671 aircraft, 284 helicopters, 158,998 unmanned aerial vehicles, 661 anti-aircraft missile systems, 29,677 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,731 multiple rocket launchers, 35,281 field artillery and mortars, 63,687 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.