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13 January 2026
During a conversation with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia is currently focused on destroying lives rather than engaging in diplomacy, targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
In temporarily Russian-occupied Mariupol, drone strikes hit electrical substations, leaving the city without electricity and heating.
In 2025, Russia sought to end the war by defeating Ukraine, but the Ukrainian Defense Forces prevented critical enemy breakthroughs and thwarted those plans.
Operators of the 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Center and the Kairos Battalion of the 414th Separate Brigade of Unmanned Strike Aviation Systems destroyed an enemy missile and artillery weapons depot and struck electrical substations in temporarily occupied territory in Donetsk region and in Crimea.
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during extremely low temperatures are aimed at creating conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction of the Ukrainian people, which falls under the definition of Article II (c) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
In Kherson, Russian drones attacked the state university overnight.
A new package of European Union sanctions against Russia may be adopted as early as February 24.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that eight regions came under enemy strikes overnight, with Russia's main target being Ukraine's energy sector.
Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia and the Zaporizhzhia district. Over 30,000 residents of the Vilniansk community were left without electricity.
In Odesa, a Russian drone attack overnight on January 13 caused significant damage to the building of the Odesa Vocational Lyceum of Construction and Architecture.
In 2025, over 100 high-level meetings took place between Ukrainian and Polish politicians and government officials. Cooperation between Kyiv and Warsaw in the security sphere increased significantly over the past year: Ukraine is not only receiving military assistance but is also helping Poland strengthen its own defense capabilities.
During December 2025 and early January 2026, Russian occupiers carried out six massive missile and drone strikes on the territory of Ukraine.
On the night of January 13, a Russian missile strike on the Kharkiv Innovation Terminal of the Nova Poshta almost completely destroyed the cargo terminal and partially destroyed the postal terminal.
On the night of January 13, a Russian missile strike on the Kharkiv Innovation Terminal of the Nova Poshta almost completely destroyed the cargo terminal and partially destroyed the postal terminal.
On the night of January 13, a Russian missile strike on the Kharkiv Innovation Terminal of the Nova Poshta almost completely destroyed the cargo terminal and partially destroyed the postal terminal.
Air Defense Forces destroyed two Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles, five Iskander-K cruise missiles, and 240 UAVs.
As of the morning of January 13, consumers in Kyiv and seven regions were left without electricity following Russian attacks.
On the night of January 13, Taganrog, Russia, in the Rostov region, was attacked by UAVs. A drone manufacturing plant and an aircraft repair plant were targeted.
The Russian army attacked critical infrastructure in the Zviahel and Korosten districts of the Zhytomyr region overnight.
Russian troops launched more than 20 strikes on 17 settlements in 12 territorial communities of the Sumy region in 24 hours, from the morning of January 12 to the morning of January 13.
In the village of Trebukhiv, Brovary district, Kyiv region, debris from a Russian missile fell in an open area.
Drone operators of the 412nd Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade "Nemesis" destroyed a Russian Prima P-18 radar station, a Tor surface-to-air missile system, and a Tunguska air defense missile-gun system in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk sectors.
The Russian army has once again attacked a DTEK thermal power plant.
The Russian army killed two residents of the Donetsk region and wounded three more people over the past day, January 12.
The Russian army launched a missile and drone strike on the Zelenodolsk community in the Dnipropetrovsk region at night, injuring a woman. A resident of the Synelnykove district was also injured as a result of the UAV attack.
Pilots of the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces have shown how they are destroying Russian military equipment on the road between the village of Shevchenko and Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
The number of victims of the Russian drone attack on the night of January 13 in Odesa has increased to six.
As many as 159 combat engagements were recorded between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders on January 12, with the fiercest fighting recorded in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
Residential buildings and social infrastructure facilities, including a hospital, kindergarten, and school, were damaged in central Odesa as a result of two waves of Russian attacks overnight.
The number of people killed in a Russian drone attack on the outskirts of Kharkiv has risen to four, while six others have been injured.