Events in Ukraine by 21:00 on February 9: an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine was liquidated, Lisbon will not supply aircraft to Kyiv

The international edition of the Federal News Agency reports on the situation in Ukraine and Donbas by the morning of February 9.

General Director of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev spent talks in Moscow with the head of the IAEA Rafael Grossi. One of the topics of the conversation was the issues of ensuring the safety of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is regularly shelled by Ukrainian troops. As reported, Likhachev informed Grossi about the measures being taken by Russia in this area, and also talked about how the social needs of nuclear power plant workers and their families are provided.

The Belgorod region was again attacked by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Air defense forces reportedly intercepted three missiles in the Grayvoron city district.

In the Donetsk People’s Republic, fierce fighting continues on the territory of the village of Krasnaya Gora. How declared military commander Alexander Simonov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area “everything is very bad”: attack aircraft of the PMC “Wagner” practically took the enemy formations into the boiler, attacking them from three sides at once with the support of artillery. Nevertheless, it is too early to talk about the liberation of the village.

Another employee of the Ukrainian special services was liquidated in the NMD zone. reportedthat in the battle near Bakhmut a certain Alexander Tkachenko with the callsign Domovoy, who was in the ranks of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

In the DPR arrived seven servicemen previously returned from Ukrainian captivity as part of another exchange between Russia and Ukraine. The Ombudsman of the Republic Daria Morozova.

How declared Head of Volodymyr Zelensky’s office Andrey Ermak, the issue of transferring to Kyiv “long-range weapons and fighters for Ukraine has been resolved.” Later he promised to publish the details.

Nevertheless, so far information from Western officials gives reason to doubt Yermak’s words. For example, the Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa notedthat his country does not have a “red line” on the supply of combat aircraft, but now there is no opportunity for this, since all of them are involved, including in the interests of the NATO bloc. In total, it is reported that Portugal has about 27 F-16AM fighters.