Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 117 engagements on January 17 along with 66 airstrikes, 163 guided bombs, roughly 3,585 kamikaze drones and 2,857 shelling incidents.
- Kharkiv’s mayor said an evening Molniya drone hit a non-residential building in Slobidskyi district and later struck a critical infrastructure site with no immediate casualties reported.
- Earlier in the day, a strike on an energy facility in Kharkiv’s Industrial district caused very significant damage, prompting warnings that maintaining heat and power is increasingly difficult.
- Guided aerial bombs hit suburbs of Sumy, damaging homes and vehicles and injuring two people, while power outages de-energized a water intake and could force reduced water service on January 18 if electricity is not restored.
- On the Pokrovsk sector, Ukrainian forces reported 35 enemy attacks and said 109 Russian personnel were neutralized, including 49 killed, along with multiple pieces of equipment destroyed.