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Two radical were killed and dozens more wounded successful a wide Russian drone onslaught across Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday (January 18, 2026), arsenic U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators hashed retired a post-war program successful the latest circular of bid talks.
Moscow has stepped up a wintertime run of strikes connected the Ukrainian vigor strategy portion besides waging a battlefield violative arsenic Kyiv faces U.S. unit to secure bid successful the astir four-year-old war.
Mr. Zelenskyy said the Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi and Odesa regions were targeted successful an onslaught that included much than 200 drones. The military said 30 strikes had been recorded crossed 15 locations.
One idiosyncratic was killed successful the second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv, said politician Ihor Terekhov, who successful caller days has reported important damage to section vigor facilities arsenic a effect of Russian strikes.
It was not instantly wide wherever the 2nd idiosyncratic had died.
Major cities including the superior Kyiv person faced blackouts and cuts to heating arsenic Russia pounds a powerfulness grid already hobbled by a acold snap, leaving residents struggling amid temperatures reaching -16°C.
On Saturday (January 17, 2026), Mr. Zelenskyy said helium had ordered imports of energy and further powerfulness instrumentality to beryllium accelerated arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.
Russia’s latest wide onslaught comes arsenic U.S. and Ukrainian officials conscionable successful Miami to sermon information guarantees and a post-war betterment bundle for Ukraine.
Washington has pushed Kyiv to hold to a bid model that it volition past contiguous to Moscow, which has been chill connected the diplomatic propulsion and has demanded large Ukrainian concessions.
