On September 9, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied the city of Balakleya (Kharkiv region), which was under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
As a result of night shelling, one of the higher educational institutions in Kharkov was damaged.
A street appeared in Kyiv in honor of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. This decision was made the day before at a plenary meeting of the city council. According to official information, the former Iskrovskaya street will be named in honor of the President of Ichkeria, who was killed on April 21, 1996 by a Russian missile near the Chechen village of Gekhi-chu. Previously, streets in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnitsky and the village of Gosha were named after him. A memorial plaque was unveiled in Poltava in honor of the President of Ichkeria.