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Russia launched a 2nd large drone and rocket bombardment of Ukraine successful 4 days, officials said Tuesday (January 13, 2026), aiming again astatine the powerfulness grid amid freezing temperatures successful an evident snub to U.S.-led bid efforts arsenic Moscow's penetration of its neighbour approaches the four-year mark.
Russia fired astir 300 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and 7 cruise missiles astatine 8 regions overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected societal media.
One onslaught successful the northeastern Kharkiv portion killed 4 radical astatine a message depot, and respective 100 1000 households were without powerfulness successful the Kyiv region, Mr. Zelenskyy said.
The daytime somesthesia successful Kyiv, which has endured freezing temperatures for much than 2 weeks, was minus 12 degrees C, with streets covered successful crystal and the rumble of generators heard passim the capital.
Kyiv has grappled with terrible powerfulness shortages for days, though Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday night's strikes caused the biggest electrical outage the metropolis has faced truthful far.
Kyiv residents huddle for warmth
More than 500 residential buildings remained without cardinal heating Tuesday (January 13, 2026). Throughout the city, bare trees were weighed down with icicles and snowfall was piled up adjacent to sidewalks.
To cope, friends and relatives gathered successful those apartments that person powerfulness oregon blistery water, astatine slightest temporarily. They complaint their phones, instrumentality blistery showers, oregon stock a lukewarm drink.
Klitschko ordered the metropolis to supply 1 blistery repast per time to needy residents. He besides announced that workers successful the city's water, heating and roadworthy attraction services would person bonuses for moving “day and night” to reconstruct captious infrastructure.
Four days earlier, Russia besides sent hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles successful a large-scale overnight onslaught and, for lone the 2nd clip successful the war, it utilized a almighty caller hypersonic rocket that struck occidental Ukraine successful what appeared to beryllium a wide informing to Kyiv's NATO allies that it won't backmost down.
On Monday (January 12, 2026), the U.S. accused Russia of a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation” of the warring astatine a clip erstwhile the Trump medication is trying to beforehand bid negotiations.
Tammy Bruce, the U.S. lawman ambassador to the United Nations, told an exigency gathering of the UN Security Council that Washington deplores “the staggering fig of casualties” successful the struggle and condemns Russia's intensifying attacks connected vigor and different infrastructure.
Russia has sought to contradict Ukrainian civilians vigor and moving h2o implicit the people of the war, hoping to deterioration down nationalist absorption to Moscow's full-scale invasion, which began connected February 24, 2022. Ukrainian officials picture the strategy arsenic “weaponising winter.”
The onslaught successful Ukraine's Kharkiv portion besides wounded 10 people, section authorities said.
In the confederate metropolis of Odesa, six radical were wounded successful the attack, said Oleh Kiper, the caput of the determination subject administration. The strikes damaged vigor infrastructure, a hospital, a kindergarten, an acquisition installation and a fig of residential buildings, helium said.
