Overview
- Ukraine says Russia launched nearly 300 attack drones along with 18 ballistic and seven cruise missiles overnight, hitting at least eight regions.
- Hundreds of thousands of households in the Kyiv region lost electricity in severe cold, and the mayor reported roughly half of apartment buildings without heating.
- A postal distribution hub in the Kharkiv region was struck, killing at least four people and injuring others, as Odesa and additional cities reported damage to civilian sites and energy facilities.
- Energy company DTEK said one of its power plants was hit in the eighth such strike since October, prompting emergency outages and repairs across multiple regions.
- U.S. and European officials condemned the escalation at the UN, and Zelensky called for faster air-defense deliveries as Russia reported downing Ukrainian drones and Kyiv claimed a strike on a drone plant in Taganrog.