Overview
- Russia launched 25 missiles and 293 attack drones overnight, and Ukraine’s air defenses reported shooting down 7 missiles and 240 drones.
- Energy infrastructure was the primary target, with Ukrenergo reporting widespread outages in Kyiv and the Kyiv region as well as in Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.
- Officials said at least 15 critical facilities, including thermal power assets, were hit; Kyiv counted about 500 apartment blocks without heat, curtailed electric transport and continued emergency shutoffs, and Kryvyi Rih reported mass power cuts and halted metro‑tram service.
- A Nova Poshta innovation terminal near Kharkiv was destroyed, killing four employees and injuring others, as fresh drone activity was reported over Kyiv on the morning of January 14.
- Heavy fighting persisted with 141 clashes on January 13, including 39 Russian assaults on the Pokrovsk sector and 26 near Huliaipole, while Ukrainian officials at the UN and in talks with U.S. commanders renewed calls for air‑defence systems, long‑range weapons and stronger sanctions, with the foreign minister framing winter attacks on energy as meeting genocide‑convention criteria.