- Russia says it is dispatching reinforcements to the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine where Kyiv’s forces have announced robust gains as part of a broader counteroffensive.
- A Moscow-installed official in the region, Vitaliy Ganchev, said that “fierce battles” were under way near the town of Balakliia that Ukraine said it had recaptured.
- Russia says it is dispatching reinforcements to the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine where Kyiv’s forces have announced robust gains as part of a broader counteroffensive.
- A Moscow-installed official in the region, Vitaliy Ganchev, said that “fierce battles” were under way near the town of Balakliia that Ukraine said it had recaptured.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says since September 1, Ukrainian troops “liberated dozens of settlements” and reclaimed territory in the east and south.
- The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog calls for an immediate end to shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, saying the situation is becoming “increasingly precarious”.
This live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Friday, September 9: