War update: 103 clashes on frontline over past day, 33 attacks repelled in Pokrovsk sector
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.
27 January 2026
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.
For years, Russia has been delaying an urgently needed heart surgery for Crimean political prisoner Amet Suleimanov, turning the systematic denial of medical care into a tool of slow destruction of political prisoners in occupied Crimea.
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.
Russia is pulling its forces out of Kamishli airport in northeast Syria, a region where Syrian government troops are attempting to regain control from Kurdish forces.
Leading Lithuanian universities have joined the Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies, an initiative to study Ukraine and Ukrainian studies in educational institutions around the world, which already brings together 60 institutions in 23 countries.
Russia is ramping up an information operation around the energy situation in Ukraine, using bot networks, pseudo-regional channels, and humanitarian blackmail to exert political pressure on the Ukrainian authorities.
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.
A total of 93 combat clashes were recorded along the front line, nearly 30 of them in the Pokrovsk sector, where Russian forces lost more than 70 occupiers.
The task of Ukraine's Defense Forces is to ensure a level of losses for the occupying army that it will be unable to replenish; optimally, this is 50,000 per month.
Russian forces carried out a drone strike on a village in the Zaporizhzhia district. An 18-year-old girl was injured.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that currently more than 80% of enemy targets are destroyed by drones. In particular, over the past year drones struck 819,737 targets.
In Kryvyi Rih, an enemy drone struck a multi-story residential building.
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.
A total of 174 brigades are working to eliminate the consequences of Russian strikes in Kyiv, with additional teams from other cities ready to help.
A total of 174 brigades are working to eliminate the consequences of Russian strikes in Kyiv, with additional teams from other cities ready to help.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a new meeting of the teams of Ukraine, the United States, and Russia could take place as early as Sunday, February 1.
The Czech government will provide Ukraine with generators worth approximately €413,000.
Hourly power outage schedules will be in effect for household consumers across all regions of Ukraine on Tuesday, January 27, while industrial consumers will face power usage restrictions.
Ukrzaliznytsia has deployed a network of mobile resilience hubs in 12 regions of Ukraine, currently consisting of 54 railway wagons.
Former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States (2006–2010) and France (2014–2020) Oleh Shamshur believes that the absence of information about the final format of U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine is not accidental, as the proposed arrangements lack real force and are incapable of deterring Russia.
Most high-rise buildings in Kherson that are centrally heated have heat.
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.