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Russian invasion forces are resuming attacks in the Lyman-Kupyansk sector of the front, increasing the intensity of shelling and conducting air strikes, the Ukrainian military’s Eastern Grouping spokesman Ilya Yevlash said on Ukrainian national television on Oct. 11.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of selling weapons, ammunition, and explosives left behind by the Russian army in Kherson Oblast, the region's prosecutor's office reported on Oct. 11.

Russia has spent 15 years building lean, agile battalion-size units that ended up being wholly unsuited for the fight Putin picked in Ukraine.

As of the morning of 9 October, 49 victims of the Russian army's missile attack on the village of Hroza near Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, had been identified. On 5 October 2023, Russian troops fired a missile on a café where local civilians had gathered to attend a wake for Andrii Kozyr, a fallen Ukrainian defender.

Russian troops targeted Ukraine’s south with 36 kamikaze drones overnight on Oct. 10, the Air Force reported. Air defenses shot down a total of 27 Shahed drones in Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson oblasts.

The Defenders of Ukraine killed around 450 Russian invaders and destroyed six tanks, three armoured combat vehicles, seven artillery systems and an air defence system belonging to the Russians over the course of 9 October.

Russian and Belarusian special forces plan a false flag attack on Belarusian territory that they intend to blame on Ukraine, the National Resistance Center reported on Oct. 10.

Ukrainian forces advanced in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast and near Bakhmut amidst reports of poor weather conditions, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its Oct. 9 report. Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesperson for the Ukrainian army's Tavria Group fighting on the southern front lines, reported that the counteroffensive gained ground west of Verbove, 18 kilometers south of Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and near Klishchiivka and Andriivka, southwest of Bakhmut.

Russian forces have intensified the laying of mines in the area of the settlements of Robotyne-Verbove and are trying to hold Ukrainian forces back in areas of the frontline away from the west of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

The Russian Federation has lost about 350 soldiers, 2 tanks, 3 armoured combat vehicles, an artillery system and an air defence system over the past day. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook Details: The total combat losses of Russian troops between 24 February 2022 and 9 October 2023 are estimated to be as follows (figures in parentheses represent the latest losses - ed.