Russia : kills four people in a barrage in Ukraine after striking a power station
Russia : Early on Tuesday, Russia attacked Ukraine with hundreds of drones and more than two dozen missiles, killing four people and destroying another power plant, further taxing Ukraine’s fragile energy infrastructure.
In the cold Kharkiv area, where four people were murdered, an AFP correspondent saw rescue personnel assisting survivors by lamplight as firemen fought a fire at a postal hub.
Following the attacks, “several hundred thousand” houses in the Kyiv area lost electricity, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who once again urged friends to support his nation’s air defense systems.President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media, “The world can respond to this Russian terror with new assistance packages for Ukraine.””Russia needs to realize that staying cold won’t help them win the war,” he said.
In the hours after the incident, authorities in Kyiv and the surrounding area implemented emergency power outages, claiming that the frigid weather were making their job more difficult.
The biggest energy supplier in Ukraine, DTEK, said that Russian soldiers had attacked one of its power stations, the ninth such strike since October.
The operator said that Russia has targeted its power plants more than 220 times since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022, although it did not specify which of its facilities was hit.
Following a Russian assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, emergency services workers attempt to put out a fire in this image from the Ukrainian Emergency Service.
Attacks every day
In recent months, Moscow has bombarded Ukraine with missiles and drones every day, destroying energy infrastructure and severing heating and electricity during the very cold winter months.
According to the Ukrainian air force, 247 drones and 25 missiles were used in Tuesday’s attack.
Six people were injured in the nocturnal attack outside Kharkiv, the region’s capital, according to the governor of Kharkiv, who also provided the dead toll.
The regional prosecutor’s office tweeted a video showing rescue personnel wearing white helmets scrambling through the still-smoking debris of a building used by postal business Nova Poshta.
Igor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, said that a Russian long-range drone hit a children’s medical center, starting a fire. There were no recorded casualties.
Other areas, notably the southern city of Odesa, were also affected by the midnight strikes.
According to regional governor Sergiy Lysak, two rounds of assaults destroyed residential structures, a hospital, and a kindergarten, injuring at least five people.
The firing of a nuclear-capable Oreshnik ballistic missile by Russia on Ukraine last week was denounced as a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation of this war” by Washington and other friends of Kyiv.
In response to Ukraine’s attempt to bomb one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s homes, Moscow claimed Monday that the missile struck an aircraft maintenance plant in the Lviv area. Kyiv disputes this assertion, and Washington has said that it does not think it occurred.