Merchandise 1 of seven An individual walks previous a Level of Invincibility centre, a authorities‑run shelter that gives fundamental companies and warmth throughout blackouts, arrange subsequent to an residence constructing left with out heating and going through lengthy energy cuts after crucial civil infrastructure was hit by latest Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 23, 2026. REUTERS/Alina Smutko
Jan 24 (Reuters) – Russia launched one other huge assault on Ukraine’s power system within the small hours of Saturday, rocking Kyiv with explosions all through the night time and leaving 1.2 million properties with out energy countrywide.
Almost 6,000 buildings within the capital have been left with out heating on Saturday morning as temperatures hovered round -10 levels Celsius (14 F). Many residents’ residences have been already freezing chilly from disruption to town’s centralised warmth distribution system following earlier assaults.
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated one particular person was killed within the capital metropolis and 4 injured, together with three being handled in hospital, whereas 19 folks together with a baby have been wounded in Ukraine’s second metropolis, Kharkiv.
Over 800,000 folks within the capital and one other 400,000 within the northern area of Chernihiv have been with out energy after the newest assaults, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba stated.
Ukraine’s air power stated Russia had unleashed 375 drones and 21 missiles, together with two of its not often deployed Tsirkon ballistic missiles, in its in a single day assault.
The sky over Kyiv was lit up by common orange flashes as air defences fired on missiles and drones descending on the capital, with loud booms echoing across the metropolis’s tall buildings.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s navy administration, reported strikes in a minimum of 4 districts. A medical facility was among the many buildings broken.
Earlier than Saturday, Kyiv had already endured two mass in a single day assaults for the reason that New 12 months which have knocked out energy and heating to a whole lot of residential buildings.
Emergency employees have been nonetheless engaged in restoring companies to residents that had been knocked out by these assaults, and Klitschko stated lots of the buildings that had misplaced heating on Saturday had solely not too long ago had it restored.
In Kharkiv, a frequent goal 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border and far nearer to jap battlefronts, Mayor Ihor Terekhov stated 25 drones had hit a number of districts.
Writing on Telegram, Terekhov stated the drones had struck a dormitory for displaced folks and two medical services together with a maternity hospital.
Reporting by Max Hunder and Ron Popeski; enhancing by Chris Reese, Tom Hogue and Mark Heinrich
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