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Friday, 13 February 2026, 03:47
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that eight regions came under enemy strikes overnight, with Russia's main target being Ukraine's energy sector.
Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia and the Zaporizhzhia district. Over 30,000 residents of the Vilniansk community were left without electricity.
In Odesa, a Russian drone attack overnight on January 13 caused significant damage to the building of the Odesa Vocational Lyceum of Construction and Architecture.
In 2025, over 100 high-level meetings took place between Ukrainian and Polish politicians and government officials. Cooperation between Kyiv and Warsaw in the security sphere increased significantly over the past year: Ukraine is not only receiving military assistance but is also helping Poland strengthen its own defense capabilities.
During December 2025 and early January 2026, Russian occupiers carried out six massive missile and drone strikes on the territory of Ukraine.
On the night of January 13, a Russian missile strike on the Kharkiv Innovation Terminal of the Nova Poshta almost completely destroyed the cargo terminal and partially destroyed the postal terminal.
Air Defense Forces destroyed two Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles, five Iskander-K cruise missiles, and 240 UAVs.
As of the morning of January 13, consumers in Kyiv and seven regions were left without electricity following Russian attacks.
On the night of January 13, Taganrog, Russia, in the Rostov region, was attacked by UAVs. A drone manufacturing plant and an aircraft repair plant were targeted.
The Russian army attacked critical infrastructure in the Zviahel and Korosten districts of the Zhytomyr region overnight.
Russian troops launched more than 20 strikes on 17 settlements in 12 territorial communities of the Sumy region in 24 hours, from the morning of January 12 to the morning of January 13.
In the village of Trebukhiv, Brovary district, Kyiv region, debris from a Russian missile fell in an open area.
The Russian army has once again attacked a DTEK thermal power plant.
The Russian army killed two residents of the Donetsk region and wounded three more people over the past day, January 12.
The Russian army launched a missile and drone strike on the Zelenodolsk community in the Dnipropetrovsk region at night, injuring a woman. A resident of the Synelnykove district was also injured as a result of the UAV attack.
The number of victims of the Russian drone attack on the night of January 13 in Odesa has increased to six.
As many as 159 combat engagements were recorded between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders on January 12, with the fiercest fighting recorded in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
Emergency electricity outages have been introduced in Kyiv and in the Bucha district, Kyiv region.
Residential buildings and social infrastructure facilities, including a hospital, kindergarten, and school, were damaged in central Odesa as a result of two waves of Russian attacks overnight.
The number of people killed in a Russian drone attack on the outskirts of Kharkiv has risen to four, while six others have been injured.
Russia suffered approximately 1,220,950 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and January 13, 2026, with 950 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Russia is already in a state of strategic defeat, and its attempts to intimidate the world with so-called "wonder weapons" and fabricated pretexts for escalation are merely a cover for a profound military, economic, and demographic crisis that will ultimately lead to its disintegration.
Drone operators of the 412nd Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade "Nemesis" destroyed a Russian Prima P-18 radar station, a Tor surface-to-air missile system, and a Tunguska air defense missile-gun system in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk sectors.
In 2025, Ukraine concluded more than 30 international agreements aimed at strengthening digital security. In total, 40 countries have now become Ukraine's partners, 13 of them under the Tallinn Mechanism.
One person was killed and several others were injured in a massive enemy attack on Kharkiv, with a fire breaking out in the suburb.
Preventive measures have been imposed on four suspects in a case involving the supply of unusable mortar rounds to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which caused losses estimated at UAH 3 billion.
European NATO member states, against the backdrop of statements by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding Greenland, are proposing to strengthen the Alliance's presence in the Arctic region, including the deployment of a NATO monitoring mission under the provisional name Arctic Sentry.
The Russian army has intensified attempts to infiltrate the northern part of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, above the railway line, using assault groups. Ukraine's Defense Forces are stopping these efforts.
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has submitted an agreement with Belarus to the Russian State Duma for ratification, which provides for the refusal to extradite or arrest citizens of both countries at the request of third countries and international courts.