Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported Russia launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 95 attack drones beginning the evening of Jan. 6, with defenses neutralizing the missile and 81 UAVs.
- Russian strikes hit the Odesa region’s Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi ports, killing one person and injuring eight, damaging port facilities and containers with vegetable oil while operations continued.
- The Energy Ministry said Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions were left almost completely without electricity, with critical infrastructure switched to reserve power and transport services disrupted.
- Ukraine’s General Staff said forces struck the Oskolneftesnab oil depot in Russia’s Belgorod region, igniting multiple storage tanks, and hit a logistics warehouse of Russia’s 20th Motorized Rifle Division in occupied Donetsk.
- Heavy ground fighting persisted across the front, with the General Staff logging 255 combat clashes by late Jan. 7 and reporting especially intense Russian assaults in the Pokrovsk sector.