As part of efforts to reduce the offensive capabilities of the Russian aggressor, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck air defense systems, command observation posts, and areas where Russian occupiers were concentrated in the TOT on the night of March 8-9.

The Main Directorate of Internal Security and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have neutralised a scheme for the mass production and sale of "documents" that imitated the identification documents of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, including "Security Service of Ukraine identification cards," which were intended to be used to evade mobilisation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Ukrainian interceptor drones and a team of experts are already on their way to help protect American military bases in Jordan.

Popular blogger and interviewer Volodymyr Zolkin has been removed from military registration and is under the "protection" of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence.

On Sunday, 8 March, near the village of Ozero in Volyn, a warning group performing their duties to deliver a conscript to the TCR was attacked by a group of civilians.

Units of the Ukrainian Navy, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Armed Forces Special Operations Forces, carried out a successful operation in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

On the night of 9 March, Russia attacked with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 197 Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas and other types of strike UAVs from various directions, about 120 of which were "shaheds".

This morning, 8 March, Russian forces struck the Kyiv-Sumy train travelling in the Sumy region with a drone. There were about 200 passengers on board.

Russian occupation forces are advancing near Udachne in the Donetsk region.

A satellite image taken on 8 March captured the aftermath of a Ukrainian drone strike on an oil depot in Armavir in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.