Russian drone hits Ukrainian firefighters in treacherous second strike
In Sloviansk, a Russian drone attacked emergency responders while they were extinguishing a fire in a cargo truck.
27 January 2026
In Sloviansk, a Russian drone attacked emergency responders while they were extinguishing a fire in a cargo truck.
January 28 has been declared a day of mourning in Odesa for those who died as a result of the Russian attack.
Since the beginning of the day, 49 combat engagements have taken place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the highest enemy activity continuing to be observed in the Pokrovsk sector.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have struck a Russian Tor-M2 surface-to-air missile system in temporarily occupied Crimea.
The Russian troops struck a kindergarten building in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, with an aerial bomb, killing one man.
The death toll from the Russian attack on the night of January 27 in Odesa has increased to three.
The Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have denied Russian military claims that Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi in Kharkiv region has been captured.
After a coordination meeting on the situation in regions and communities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 926 buildings in Kyiv remain without heating. He also discussed the situation in Odesa and Kharkiv following Russian strikes.
A 72-year-old woman was killed in Kherson as a result of a Russian army strike using rocket artillery while she was inside her home.
In Odesa, 35 people were injured as a result of a drone attack on the night of January 27, with 12 of them hospitalized.
Russian troops attacked the Zaporizhzhia region, killing a civilian woman and injuring another.
In the village of Smilne, Lviv region, after a morning attack by a Russian drone, carbon levels were recorded as exceeding the norm: residents are advised to wear masks when going outside.
In Odesa, the professional lyceum of construction and architecture was destroyed for the second time by an enemy drone attack on the night of January 27, causing a fire in the building.
Rescuers found a man's body under the rubble of a building damaged by a Russian attack on January 27 in Odesa.
Shooting battles with Russian troops continue in the center of Myrnohrad.
Russian troops struck 25 settlements in 16 communities in the Sumy region nearly 60 times between the morning of January 26 and the morning of January 27.
The Russian army has hit a gas pipeline in the Mykolaiv region, leaving residents of the village of Trykhaty without gas supplies.
Enemy drones attacked shuttle buses carrying passengers in the Zaporizhzhia district.
Air Defense Forces neutralized 135 of the 165 drones used by the Russians to attack Ukraine since Monday evening.
In Odesa, 23 people were injured by an enemy attack on the night of January 27, two of them are severely wounded.
On the morning of Tuesday, January 27, the Russians struck Sloviansk with guided aerial bombs, killing two people.
Over the past day, there were 103 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the Pokrovsk sector being the hottest spot.
Russian forces carried out an attack on an infrastructure facility in the Lviv region.
Total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to January 27, 2026, amount to approximately 1,235,880 personnel, including 820 over the past day.
The number of people injured in Odesa as a result of a nighttime attack by Russian forces has risen to 22.
Russian forces attacked the Mykolaiv region overnight with drones, directing the main strike at energy infrastructure.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, specialists of the Cybersecurity Department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have neutralized more than 14,000 large-scale cyberattacks and cyber incidents targeting the resources of central government bodies and Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.
As a result of a nighttime enemy drone attack on Odesa, three people were injured, civilian infrastructure sustained damage, and large-scale fires broke out.
26 January 2026
As a result of an enemy drone strike on a high-rise building in Kryvyi Rih, no one was injured. The apartments hit by the UAV were empty.
As a result of a combined enemy attack on Kharkiv, two people were injured, and schools and energy infrastructure were damaged.