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Friday, 06 February 2026, 11:48
In the Kharkiv region, as a result of another strike by Russian forces on critical infrastructure facilities, several settlements, including Chuhuiv, were left without electricity.
Russian forces carried out a missile strike on Kharkiv and attacked the city with drones, causing casualties.
In the south, Russian troops have significantly increased the number of air strikes and the use of strike drones in recent weeks, while shifting the focus from attacking the front line to attacking rear facilities and communications of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 48 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian troops, with the invaders remaining the most active in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian troops are relocating artillery, including howitzers, self-propelled guns, and tanks, from the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector to Oleksandrivka.
The Defense Forces have refuted reports circulating in some media outlets about the alleged complete occupation of Orikhovo-Vasylivka in the Donetsk region.
On Monday, during its winter plenary session in Strasbourg, the PACE elected a new president. Austrian MP Petra Bayr will head the Assembly for the following year.
On the southern axis, Russian forces have not changed their combat tactics and continue to use small assault groups, infiltration, and massive kamikaze drone strikes.
Yuriy Ignat, Head of Communications for the Ukrainian Air Force Command, said that there was no massive strike with 16 ballistic missiles over Kyiv on January 13.
Russian troops have abandoned their positions on Oleksiivskyi Island in the Kherson region due to active actions by Ukraine’s Defense Forces and low morale.
In the Prydniprovske sector, Russian forces are carrying out fewer assault operations, but are not reducing the intensity of kamikaze drone and artillery strikes, particularly against Kherson and nearby communities.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the hit on the infrastructure of the Slavyansk Eco oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation.
Russian forces are intensifying pressure and deploying reserves to the Pokrovsk and Ocheretyne sectors of the front.
Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated two Russian servicemen in Kupiansk and captured two others.
Over the previous day, January 25, Russian forces shelled Chernihiv region 42 times, with 56 explosions recorded. Among the targets were communications facilities.
On the northern outskirts of temporarily occupied Luhansk, in an area where a major energy facility is located, a fire has been observed.
From the evening of January 25 through the night of January 26, Russian forces attacked the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk Region with a drone and shelled it with artillery, injuring a man.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 110 out of 138 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine starting from the evening of January 25.
Russian forces carried out strikes on 36 settlements in the Sumy region over the previous day, leaving seven people wounded, including two children.
An attack on an oil refinery took place in Russia's Krasnodar Krai.
Over the previous day, January 25, 138 combat engagements between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line.
The enemy attacked Zaporizhzhia for the second time in one night, delivering four strikes and damaging private homes.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to January 26, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,235,060 people, including 1,020 people over the past day.
Operators of the Raid regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces struck a Russian “turtle tank” with drones on one of the hot spots of the front line.
The Russians launched a new strike on Zaporizhzhia with strike UAVs, causing a fire at the site of the strike.
Soldiers of the 46th Separate Airborne Podillia Brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how they used drones to destroy a tank and motor vehicles belonging to Russian invaders.
The enemy has again attacked the Zaporizhzhia region with drones, causing a fire in Vilniansk and damaging high-rise buildings.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement destroyed a vehicle belonging to Russian forces in Bryansk that was being used to support units operating in the border area.
Drunk Russian soldiers who failed to divide a captured thermal imager opened fire in occupied Donetsk, leaving one of the participants dead.