Overview
- Ukrenergo reports major outages in Volyn and Odesa with new cutoffs in Chernihiv, and national electricity use fell 16.4 percent as repair crews worked to restore service.
- Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 98 combat engagements on January 1 after 131 the day prior, with the Pokrovsk sector remaining the most active.
- Kyiv says its forces struck Russia’s Ilsky oil refinery and hit multiple targets in occupied Donetsk, including a Shahed storage site, a Tor-M2 system and a fuel depot.
- Officials detail civilian casualties and damage from Russian attacks in Donetsk and Kherson regions and overnight drone strikes in Zaporizhzhia that set homes and a shopping center on fire.
- ISW assesses Russian forces seized about 4,831 square kilometers in 2025 through adapted tactics but failed to meet priority objectives, keeping advances slow and costly.