Overview
- Grid operator Ukrenergo and the Energy Ministry report new outage zones in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia, with weather knocking out power to over 500 towns, and Kyiv moving to temporary hot‑water restrictions as 613 apartment blocks still lack heating.
- The Air Force says Russia launched 146 attack drones and an Iskander-M missile overnight on Jan 27–28, with 103 drones downed as strikes killed two in Kyiv region and damaged port infrastructure in Odesa.
- Kherson came under fresh fire on Jan 29, leaving one man dead and several injured, a day after shelling wounded two medical workers at a city hospital.
- Prosecutors in Kharkiv region now attribute six deaths to the drone strike on a Barvinkove–Lviv–Chop passenger train, with forensic identification under way.
- Frontline fighting remained intense with 117 engagements reported on Jan 28, concentrated on the Pokrovsk–Mirnograd axis where Ukrainian units repelled assaults and destroyed a vehicle carrying Russian troops attempting to push into central Mirnograd; Ukrzaliznytsia has imposed temporary route limits and a special operating regime in higher‑risk areas.