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17 January 2026
President Volodymyr Zelensky held an energy coordination call, during which he discussed the elimination of the consequences of Russian strikes and ways to strengthen the resilience of cities. The most difficult situation is in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and their surrounding regions.
Russian propagandists have fabricated the audio track of a video from a local Danish television channel.
Over the course of the current week, the aggressor carried out six attacks on the infrastructure of the Naftogaz Group, with the latest strike occurring overnight into January 17.
Russian forces are amassing reserves near Siversk and deploying staging areas in the Serebrianskyi Forest to capture Dronivka in the Sloviansk sector of the front.
Russian forces are amassing reserves near Siversk and deploying staging areas in the Serebrianskyi Forest to capture Dronivka in the Sloviansk sector of the front.
As of the morning of January 17, the most difficult energy supply situation remains in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, where hourly blackout schedules are currently not in effect. Emergency power outages are being applied in some regions.
The enemy Russian army attacked Zaporizhzhia. A fire broke out in one of the districts.
In Kyiv, damage was recorded in a non-residential area of the Obolonskyi district as a result of a nighttime drone attack.
In the Bucha district, 56,000 consumers were left without electricity as a result of an attack on the night of January 17
In Kyiv, about 50 out of 6,000 buildings remain without heating after the Russian attack on January 9.
Russian invaders in the Pokrovsk direction are trying to build up forces for further actions to cut off the Ukrainian military's logistics routes and infiltrate Myrnohrad.
Russian invaders in the Pokrovsk direction are trying to build up forces for further actions to cut off the Ukrainian military's logistics routes and infiltrate Myrnohrad.
Russian invaders struck infrastructure facilities in the Odesa region.
Russian invaders struck infrastructure facilities in the Odesa region.
Russian invaders struck infrastructure facilities in the Odesa region.
Russian forces used drones and artillery to strike Nikopol, as well as the Marhanets and Pokrov communities in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian forces used drones and artillery to strike Nikopol, as well as the Marhanets and Pokrov communities in Dnipropetrovsk region.
On January 16, 164 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded on the front.
Air defense forces neutralized 96 of the 115 unmanned aerial vehicles used by Russia to attack Ukraine starting from the evening of January 16.
The total combat losses of Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to January 17, 2026, amount to approximately 1,225,590 personnel, including 1,130 over the past day.
Over the course of the day, the occupiers launched 677 attacks on 29 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, injuring three people.
As a result of the explosion in a multi-storey residential building in Kharkiv, fatalities and casualties were reported.
In the southern sector, border guards used unmanned aerial vehicles to hit three quad bikes, a car, and a video surveillance camera of the Russian invaders.
Exterior lighting has been dimmed at railway stations in Lviv, Dnipro, Odesa, Kyiv, and Kharkiv to save electricity.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, approximately 130,000 railway infrastructure facilities, including tracks, stations, and depots, have been damaged or destroyed.
16 January 2026
Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko showed what the daily work of energy workers across the country looks like.
During a meeting in Geneva, Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets invited the ICRC leadership to visit Ukraine to see for themselves the consequences of Russian shelling of civilian infrastructure.
According to intelligence reports, Russia is preparing for new massive strikes against Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky heard Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko's report on the situation in the energy sector.
In Kyiv, 67 apartment buildings remain without heating out of the 6,000 that lost heat supply following Russia's massive attack on January 9.