Ukrainian forces counterattacked Russian offensive operations near Kindrativka and Novokostyantynivka in northern Sumy Oblast.

A source reporting on the Russian Northern Grouping of Forces (GoF) claimed on September 8 that Ukrainian forces counterattacked near Kindrativka and Novokostyantynivka.

On the morning of 8 September, Russian forces attacked a Kyiv-Sumy passenger train in Sumy Oblast, causing a fire and prompting the evacuation of 90 people. No casualties were reported.

The enemy attacked a Kyiv-Sumy passenger train with drones in the Sumy district.

An enemy strike hit the Kyiv–Sumy passenger train, but no one was injured.

Rescuers extinguished the fire and evacuated 90 people from the train in Sumy district.

On the morning of Sept. 8, Russian drones struck a Kyiv-Sumy passenger train twice, but no one was injured after the train was stopped during an air raid alert and all 90 passengers and crew members were evacuated, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.

In the Sumy region, Russian forces attacked a diesel locomotive of the Kyiv-Sumy train at a railway station. No one was injured, but an evacuation was underway

Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that in the morning, a train locomotive Kyiv-Sumy was attacked at a railway station in Sumy Oblast, with no injured.

The train was stopped at the station ahead of schedule by a monitoring team from 'Ukrzaliznytsia.' The passengers, the locomotive crew, and the train were evacuated. There were no injuries.