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Zaporizhzhia strike and a week of Ukrainian hits
Summary
A retrospective on 9 August 2023, when a Russian missile hit a residential area as Ukraine pressed attacks on Russian-held targets.
What did the war look like on 9 August 2023? In Zaporizhzhia, it meant a Russian missile strike on a residential area that killed at least two people and injured seven others.
The attack on civilians came after several days in which Ukraine reported or carried out strikes on Russian military and logistics targets.
The days before
On 4 August 2023, the Russian landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak was damaged by a Ukrainian naval drone attack at the naval base at the Port of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai.
On 5 August 2023, Ukraine said it had damaged the Russian tanker Sig in a naval drone attack in the Black Sea near the Crimean Bridge.
On 6 August 2023, a missile of the Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged a bridge over the Chonhar Strait, which connects the Russian-occupied part of Kherson Oblast with Crimea. The strike was part of the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.
A day of contrasts
Taken together, the reports show two patterns in the first days of August 2023. Ukraine targeted ships and crossings linked to Russian-held Crimea and the Black Sea. Russia, for its part, struck a residential area in a Ukrainian city.
The Zaporizhzhia strike on 9 August 2023 left at least two people dead and seven wounded.
