Kyiv (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Russian drone attacks injured eight people, set a private enterprise ablaze, and impaired residential structures in Ukraine, officials revealed.
Ukrainian authorities said it intercepted 65 drones, and 28 more did not achieve their targets in the barrage. Drone debris impaired many houses in the Kharkiv district, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov stated. Mayor Ihor Terekhovs announced that emergency services were called shortly after midnight to a private corporation that caught fire in Kharkiv due to the Russian attack.
Ukraine’s state emergency service expressed the fire destroyed production facilities. Russia also undertook a drone attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa, harming many residential buildings and cars and wounding four people in the city and the surrounding area, its governor, Oleh Kiper, stated.
After the spell affected power and heating in the central town of Uman in the Cherkasy area, local services were operating to repair the supply, according to Mayor Iryna Pletnova.
The drone raid on the Kyiv region overpowered nine vehicles and harmed 27 more in the vintage car showroom. It also harmed residential houses and cars near the region, the local authorities stated.
How are Russian drone strikes increasing across Ukraine?
The Russian drone attacks against Ukraine have been on the rise, and very many deaths and damage cases have been witnessed across the regions.
Earlier on January 26, 2025, Russian troops unleashed a massive onslaught of drone attacks throughout Ukraine, sending 104 drones into the country, launched from various launch sites, including locations in Oryol and Kursk oblasts. Ukrainian air defence shot down 57 drones. Russia bombarded infrastructure and house infrastructure in regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Kyiv.
On January 24, 2025, a Russian strike through the use of drones around Kyiv killed at least three people: two men and a woman. The strike caused damage to the residential houses and other vehicles in the region. Russian drones have reportedly attacked civilians repeatedly in Kherson, with attacks reported to have occurred around 650 times since the beginning of the year, resulting in seven deaths and many injuries.
