🔵09.04.2022

17:27 head of Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Haiday

In Rubizhne, Luhansk region, Russian forces struck a tank with nitric acid. That’s the second such incident in the past week. Swallowing or breathing in nitric acid can produce poisoning. Exposure to nitric acid can cause irritation to skin, and mucous membrane.

Updated at 18:30: The attack was not a threat to local population. Explosion of the storage tank with four tons of nitric acid sent up a plume toward the Russian troops’ positions near Kudryashivka and Varvarivka.   

17:22 deputy head of the Office of the President Andriy Sybiha
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is meeting the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyi during an unannounced visit to Kyiv. 

15:47 advisor to the head of the Office of the President Mykhailo Podolyak
Russia earned EUR 37 billion from energy exports in the first 40 days of its invasion of Ukraine. As the EU pays for Russian energy, Russia can buy more missiles and ammunition to fight.  

14:50 Ukrainska Pravda
The Council of the European Union ordered Russian and Belarusian trucks that were in the EU as of April 9, to leave their territory by April 16.

14:48 Novoe Vremya
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi met in Kyiv. 

13:24 Strategic Communications Department of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
In the village of Vilkhivka, Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces discovered a mass grave. Corpses of 10 Russian soldiers were lying in a pit. “The Russians ruined the myth that they do not leave their people behind,” the statement reads.   

11:18 Ukrainska Pravda
On the morning of April 9, in Kherson, Russian forces abducted the former head of the Kherson regional administration Andriy Putilov. 

08:55 General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Russia lost 19,100 troops in its war against Ukraine. 

08:53 Ukraine’s Parliamentary Commissioner on Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova

Child casualty toll as of April 9: 176 children killed and 324 injured as Russia invaded Ukraine.

08:35 head of Poltava regional administration Dmytro Lunin
The Russian troops conducted a missile strike on an infrastructure facility in Myrhorod. Two people were injured. The strike caused considerable damage to the infrastructure facility.

07:16 advisor to the city mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko
In Mariupol, Russian forces continue to incinerate the corpses of murdered civilians in mobile crematoria to wipe all evidence of atrocities they committed. Bombardments are audible across the city. 01:42 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
A senior U.S. defense official said that Russian forces launched the missile that hit the Kramatorsk train station on April 8 killing more than 50.