Four thousand buildings in Kyiv remain without heating after shelling — Klychko
Four thousand high-rise buildings in the capital remain without heating after the Russian attack.
20 January 2026
Four thousand high-rise buildings in the capital remain without heating after the Russian attack.
All units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are currently engaged in combat missions, and Ukrainian troops will not participate in training abroad, including in Greenland.
Within the Defense Forces, units are being formed that will focus on tracking Russian drone operators.
Today's Russian attack cost Ukraine EUR 80 million in missiles for air defense systems alone.
There are two stages in building an effective system capable of stopping the enemy in the air and on the ground. The first is restructuring effective management in the defense sector, and the second is eliminating 50,000 Russian troops on the battlefield every month.
In the Kyiv region, 15 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged as a result of the overnight Russian attack.
The Russian army launched an air strike with guided bombs on the village of Kushuhum in the Zaporizhzhia district.
Russians are remotely mining Kherson - anti-personnel mines were found near the bus station.
Soldiers from the 426th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment of the 30th Marine Corps showed how they struck the control tower of the Russian military airfield in Dzhankoy in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had received a report from the Ukrainian Air Force commander on the first evidence of the enemy's updated tactics and had instructed that partners be informed accordingly.
On the night of January 20, air defense units hit 342 enemy targets. In particular, 14 Iskander-M/S-300 ballistic missiles, 13 Kh-101 cruise missiles, and 315 enemy UAVs.
On January 20, Air Defense Forces struck a significant number of Russian targets, as Ukraine had received the necessary missiles a day before the attack.
More than 10,000 users in the Rivne region have been left without power following a morning strike by the Russian Federation, which damaged critical infrastructure, smashed windows in several residential buildings, and damaged cars.
Russian troops have struck an industrial facility in the Poltava region.
In the Odesa region, Russian invaders attacked civilian infrastructure in the morning of January 20.
During a Russian attack on the night of January 20, a strike on critical infrastructure occurred in the Vinnytsia region.
On January 19, 165 combat engagements were recorded between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian occupiers.
On January 20, one person in Kyiv was hospitalized following a Russian attack.
In Kyiv, as a result of the Russian attack on January 20, 5,635 multi-story residential buildings are without heating.
In the Bucha District of Kyiv region, a 50-year-old man died following a Russian mass attack.
In the Kherson region, four people sustained injuries over the course of the day as a result of Russian aggression.
In Dnipro, two women were injured and damage was caused by a nighttime Russian attack.
The total combat losses of Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to January 20, 2026, amount to approximately 1,225,590 personnel, including 1,130 over the past day.
Over the course of the day, the occupiers carried out 789 strikes on 39 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Region. Three people were injured as a result of enemy attacks on Zaporizhzhia city and Zaporizhzhia district.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, emergency power outages have become the norm and are turning into a humanitarian catastrophe.
In Kherson, police explosive ordnance disposal technicians destroyed dangerous "petal" mines with which Russian forces had remotely mined the territory of a medical facility in the city center. Residents are warned that such mines may react unpredictably to temperature fluctuations, and snow further increases the danger.
Explosive ordnance disposal technicians of the Sumy Regional Police neutralized an enemy drone that had been fitted with an anti-tank mine containing 6 kilograms of explosive material.
In the Kupiansk sector, units of the 77th Separate Airmobile Dnipro Brigade eliminated enemy personnel, destroyed shelters, and also disrupted the command and communications system of the Russian invaders.
Volodymyr Siniychuk, a soldier and photojournalist for the Poltava region newspaper Ridny Krai, was killed in battle against Russian invaders.
In 2025, the Center of Special Operations “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine destroyed and disabled key elements of the Russian Federation's echeloned air defense system worth approximately $4 billion.