Founded in 1918
Sunday, 19 April 2026, 18:11
28 January 2026
Mykola Dziak, a soloist of the bands the Secret of the Third Planet and the House of Griboyedov and a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has died in hospital from severe wounds sustained while carrying out a combat mission.
In Odesa, a building of the Holy Dormition Monastery was damaged as a result of a Russian drone attack overnight into January 28, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Marian Kushnir rescued a child from a high-rise apartment building in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region that was attacked by Russian forces.
On the eastern axis, Russian forces are actively attempting to infiltrate with assault groups, including by disguising themselves as civilians. At the same time, Ukraine’s Defense Forces are systematically disrupting these attempts and carrying out countermeasures.
The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has ordered the pre-trial detention, without the right to post bail, of a Belarusian spy who had worked as a journalist in Kyiv for an extended period and attempted to infiltrate a unit of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate.
The Main Directorate of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has published data on 66 vessels belonging to the so-called shadow fleet of Russia, Iran, and Venezuela on the War&Sanctions portal, as well as ships involved in the theft of Ukrainian grain and those exposed for violating Ukraine’s state border.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Marian Kushnir rescued a child from a high-rise apartment building in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region that was attacked by Russian forces.
Russian forces shelled Zaporizhzhia this morning using Tornado-S multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). This type of weapon has allowed them to strike the regional center throughout all four years of the full-scale war. There is currently no threat of shelling with tube artillery.
The enemy launched two MLRS strikes on a residential district of Zaporizhzhia in the morning. The number of injured has risen to six. Most of them will receive treatment at home.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces have struck the Khokholskaya oil depot in Russia's Voronezh Region, as well as a Russian drone warehouse and a UAV control point.
In Kyiv, 737 residential buildings remain without heating.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with the negotiation team and government officials, has identified issues that need further elaboration in the agreement with the US on post-war reconstruction.
In the Semenivka community in the Chernihiv region, at around 5 a.m. on January 28, Russian Geran UAVs hit an energy facility, leaving several settlements without power.
Explosions were heard in Feodosiia and Sevastopol in temporarily occupied Crimea.
In the Sloviansk sector, the Russian army is increasing pressure around the village of Dronivka. Ukrainian defenders are fighting to protect the settlement, inflicting losses on the enemy in terms of manpower and equipment.
On the railway in the Barvinkove community of the Kharkiv region, after a Russian attack, the bodies of four victims and body parts were found. The exact number of victims is still being determined.
In the Sloviansk sector, the Russian army is increasing pressure around the village of Dronivka. Ukrainian defenders are fighting to protect the settlement, inflicting losses on the enemy in terms of manpower and equipment.
Russian troops attacked a medical facility in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson, injuring two medical workers.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 103 out of 146 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine since the evening of January 27.
The Russian army struck a residential area of Zaporizhzhia with MLRS. An investigation has been launched.
Three people were injured in the Odesa region as a result of Russian drone attacks on Wednesday night, January 28.
Last week was the most difficult in the history of Ukraine’s unified power system. Russia’s large-scale strikes, compounded by severe frosts, created an electricity deficit that could not be covered either by domestic generation or imports.
On January 27, a total of 105 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded along the front line.
Over the course of the day, the Russian army struck the Nikopol, Synelnykove, Kryvyi Rih, Pavlohrad, and Kamianske districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to January 28, 2026, amount to approximately 1,236,570 personnel, including 690 over the past day.
In Zaporizhzhia, which was attacked by the enemy at dawn, three people were injured.
In the Kursk sector, fighters of the Aquila strike unmanned aerial systems company of the "Steel Border" brigade destroyed a camouflaged D-30 howitzer and seven shelters of Russian invaders.
In the Bilohorodka community of the Kyiv region, an attack by Russian drones caused a fire on the roof and the top floor of a residential building.
Russian forces carried out a ballistic strike on an infrastructure facility in Kryvyi Rih, as a result of which two people were wounded.
In Zaporizhzhia, a fire broke out in one of the buildings as a result of an attack by Russian forces.