Overview
- Ukrainian media reported explosions in Kyiv during air-raid alerts, with additional blasts noted in Dnipro, Kharkiv’s Chuhuiv district, and Ukrainian-held areas of Zaporizhzhia.
- Russian security sources said a command post of the 2nd border outpost of the “Steel Border” unit was destroyed near Stetskivka in Sumy region, reporting officer casualties and destroyed equipment.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry stated that Grad rocket artillery from the “West” grouping disrupted a Ukrainian rotation and ammunition resupply in the Kupyansk sector.
- Regional governors in Bryansk, Penza, and Voronezh reported multi-hour drone-danger alerts that were later canceled overnight.
- A Russian foreign ministry envoy reported at least 1,700 munitions fired at Kherson region during January 12–18 and said Belgorod region experienced the most frequent Ukrainian drone attacks in that period.