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Explosions, fires reported in Kyiv as thousands remain without heat
Russia launched a wave of drones towards Kyiv overnight on Jan. 12, striking a building within the city, local officials reported.
Russia launched an overnight air attack on Kyiv, sparking a fire in one of the city's districts, Ukrainian military said on Monday.
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EADaily, January 12th, 2026. The explosion thundered in Kiev against the background of an air alert, the Ukrainian Public television channel reports.
Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people in the capital.
Parts of Kyiv are still without heat as temperatures plunged into the single digits Saturday, following timed Russian strikes that left half of the capital city in darkness. The shelling that began overnight Thursday was among the heaviest of the war,
Kyiv's water and heating systems were back on after being briefly shut down amid intense cold on Saturday, as engineers scrambled to stabilize a power grid brought to the brink by a campaign of Russian strikes,
Ukraine battled Sunday to restore power to tens of thousands of people left without heating in bitterly cold temperatures, after a week of intense Russian attacks that have brought the country’s energy infrastructure to its knees.
Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people in the capital. For only the second time in the nearly 4-year-old war,