As of 4 p.m., February 9, 64 combat engagements have taken place at the front since the beginning of the day. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back the enemy, while the Russian occupiers continue to focus their efforts on the Pokrovsk and Kursk directions,

Desperately short of infantry, Kyiv is using aerial drones to pick off Russian infantry. It’s slowing, but not stopping, the Russian advance.

The Russians have been attacking Ukraine with 139 Shahed drones and decoy UAVs of various types since the evening of 7 February. Ukrainian air defence has managed to down 67 drones, while 71 disappeared from radar.

Ukraine’s $1.3 billion drone war is now being led by a rap artist who has been fighting on the front line – and in his music - since the start of the war, Sam Kiley reports