Overview
- Regional officials said electricity in Zaporizhzhia was restored by around 05:00 on January 8, while roughly 800,000 consumers in Dnipropetrovsk region remained without power into the morning with partial heat and water service later resumed.
- Authorities deployed large-scale emergency support in Dnipropetrovsk region, opening more than 1,500 heating and charging points and running critical facilities on generators as police and rescue teams worked around the clock.
- Severe weather prompted an operational road-emergency headquarters and transport limits on key routes including the M‑06 in Rivne, Zhytomyr and parts of Lviv region, with forecasters warning of further snow and hard frosts.
- The General Staff reported 275 engagements on January 7 and 54 more by 16:00 on January 8, with Russian forces concentrating attacks on the Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole directions and multiple attempts to dislodge Ukrainian defenses.
- Kryvyi Rih came under new strikes with reported Iskander ballistic missiles hitting apartment buildings, and separate shelling in Kherson killed three people, as industry and transport adapted with Zaporizhstal halting output and rail switching to reserve heat in Dnipro.