[Korrespondent] 21.32 The Russian authorities are using fictitious recruitment agencies and shadow migration networks to lure foreigners into the war against Ukraine. This is reported by The Telegraph. It is noted that many of these recruits die in the first 72 hours after being sent to the front due to a lack of preparation and understanding of where they are going. According to the publication, by the end of 2025, Russia had recruited about 18 thousand citizens from 128 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, at least 3.3 thousand of them were killed in combat.
21.10 On the evening of January 26, Russian troops struck a high-rise building in Kryvyi Rih. This was reported by the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council, Oleksandr Vilkul, and the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Oleksandr Ganzha. It is noted that a fire broke out as a result of the shelling. The rescue operation is ongoing.
20.41 The Russians launched a missile strike on Kharkiv and attacked the city with drones, there are casualties. This was reported by the mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, on January 26. According to the head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Synegubov, according to preliminary data, one person was injured as a result of the enemy strike in Kharkiv. There is information about damage to residential high-rise buildings and a school in the Industrial district. Russian drones have been recorded hitting high-rise buildings in the Saltiv and Kyiv districts.
19.23 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, specialists from the Cybersecurity Department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SCSU) have neutralized more than 14,000 large-scale cyberattacks and cyberincidents on the resources of central government bodies and critical infrastructure of Ukraine. The SBU reported this on January 26.
18.59 Group of Forces East denied information about the alleged full control of Russian troops over the settlement of Orikhovo-Vasylivka in the Donetsk region. It is noted that the data disseminated by some information resources do not correspond to reality. Ukrainian units continue to be in the area of ​​the settlement and hold the occupied positions. Servicemen of the 30th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade repel enemy attacks and inflict losses on them in manpower, despite significant pressure from the occupation forces.
18.41 On Tuesday, power outage schedules will be in effect again in the regions of Ukraine. This was reported by Ukrenergo. Improving power outage schedules and canceling emergency outages is possible only in the absence of new massive shelling from Russia.
17.47 Over the past week, the Russian occupation army captured 26.58 sq km of Ukrainian territory . This is two and a half times less than the indicators of the week before last, when the enemy occupied 66.72 sq. km, Interfax-Ukraine reports based on the results of an analysis of maps by the DeepState analytical project.
16.58 The European Union is working on the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, which will target the aggressor's energy revenues, its shadow fleet, and sanctions evasion networks. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful stressed that such measures are necessary to counter hybrid threats and potential environmental risks from accidents involving Russian ships in the Baltic Sea, Ukrinform reports.
16.55 On Sunday, January 25, Russian troops targeted the Kherson CHPP with drones and artillery. The shelling almost did not cease during the day. This was reported by Serhiy Koretsky, Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz. According to him, the Russians are trying to deprive the plant of the opportunity to restore its equipment.
"The Kherson CHP was the only source of heat supply for tens of thousands of city residents. Together with the local authorities, we are doing everything possible to provide Kherson residents with alternative sources of heat," Koretsky noted.
16.42 Since the beginning of the day and as of 16:00, 48 clashes have occurred on the front between the Ukrainian army and the Russian invaders, which is significantly less than the figures of the previous day. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational summary.
The enemy has not yet carried out offensive operations in the North-Slobozhansky, Kursk, Slavyansky and Dnieper directions.
16.10 The next round of trilateral talks involving Ukraine, the United States, and Russia may take place this week . President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this on Telegram.
According to him, the other day in Abu Dhabi, they discussed complex political issues that have not yet been resolved, the head of state noted.
15.57 The Defense Forces have expelled Russian military personnel from Aleksiyivskyi Island in the Kherson region. This was reported by the spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces Vladyslav Voloshyn in a comment to Ukrinform.
"On Oleksiyivskyi Island, our intelligence records the abandonment of positions. This (happened - ed.) as a result of the active actions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the low moral and psychological state of those servicemen who were at these positions," the spokesman explained.
Currently, Russian troops cannot restore observation posts there.
15.46 The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine denied information about the "arrival of 16 ballistic missiles" over Kyiv on January 13. This was stated by the statement of the head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, on the air of the United News.
15.31 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a conference call on energy issues, at which he recognized the timing of the restoration of heat supply in Kyiv as unsatisfactory . He wrote about this in Telegram.
Extremely difficult circumstances have developed in the capital: more than 1,200 apartment buildings are still without heating.
15.36 Russian military intelligence agents were sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property for preparing a bomb in the center of Kyiv. The SBU press service reports this.
"Based on the evidence of counterintelligence and investigators of the Security Service, two agents of the Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU), whom the SBU detained in September 2024 in Zaporizhia, received 15 years in prison with confiscation of property," the report says.
As the investigation established, the attackers were preparing an explosion in a crowded place in Kyiv to provoke panic in the capital of Ukraine.
To do this, they, on the instructions of a curator from the Russian Federation, purchased the necessary components to make a detonating mechanism for a homemade bomb, and then had to combine it with explosives hidden in the cache.
15.05 Russian invaders are increasing pressure and bringing up reserves on the Pokrovsky and Ocheretinsky directions of the front. This was reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrsky, in Telegram following the results of the work in the Donetsk region.
The key task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to inflict maximum losses on the enemy, destroy its reserves, and consistently reduce its offensive potential, the commander-in-chief noted.
14.58 Two women were killed and four more people were injured as a result of Russian shelling of the Donetsk region on January 25.
The police recorded 1,560 enemy strikes on the front line and residential areas of the region. Five settlements were under fire: the cities of Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, Mykolaivka, Sloviansk, and the village of Oleksievo-Druzhkivka. 66 civilian objects were destroyed, including 51 residential buildings.
The Russians hit Druzhkivka with Smerch MLRS - killing a 78-year-old woman and wounding three more civilians aged 47 to 66. In addition, the occupiers hit the city with KAB-250 bombs and FPV drones. Four apartment buildings, an administrative building, an enterprise, two boiler rooms, and a non-residential building were damaged.
Russian troops dropped a KAB-250 bomb on Alekseevo-Druzhkivka - a 63-year-old woman was killed, her husband, 69, was severely injured. A private house was damaged.
14.22 On the night of January 24, as a result of an attack by Russian invaders in the capital of Ukraine, the objects of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve , which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, were damaged. This was stated by the reserve's general director Maksym Ostapenko in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine.
14.16 Ukraine intends to produce over 7 million unmanned aerial vehicles in 2026, which will allow it to increase the strike zone to 100 km and strengthen the country's asymmetric defense. Deputy Defense Minister Serhiy Boev stated this during a speech at the OFDEF conference dedicated to the coordination of defense support to Ukraine from partner states.
"Together with our partners, we have formed a military strategy that involves protecting Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure, stabilizing the front, defeating Russian logistics in operational depth, and striking strategic enemy targets," he emphasized.
To implement this strategy in 2026, Ukraine needs $120 billion. Half of the amount – $60 billion – the country plans to provide from its own budget and loans from the European Union. Ukraine expects another $60 billion from partners in the form of security assistance. Serhiy Boev named air defense and missile defense systems, missiles for them, Ukrainian-made UAVs, and extended-range artillery ammunition as key priorities for 2026.
Ukraine calls on partners to direct about 80% of security assistance to these three areas. In the field of unmanned systems, Kyiv plans to produce more than 7 million drones by 2026. Unmanned technologies have become the basis of asymmetric defense and have allowed the creation of a strike zone up to 20 kilometers deep.
14.01 On Monday night, Russian invaders struck energy facilities in two regions of Ukraine. Ukrenergo reported this. Emergency power outages have been in effect in Kyiv and the Kyiv region since this morning, as well as "in several other regions."
13.54 In Sumy region, Russians are remotely mining territories by dropping explosives from drones. Russian troops are dropping explosive devices from drones in small, light-colored bags that can be triggered by pressure or proximity.
Residents of the region are urged to be especially careful when traveling on the roads, particularly near border settlements.
13.28 36-year-old firefighter and rescuer Oleksandr Zibrov, who came under a repeated Russian strike on January 9, died in Kyiv.
"Another difficult day for the family of the State Emergency Service. Unfortunately, after 18 days of fighting for life, our colleague, firefighter and rescuer of the 24th state fire and rescue unit, 36-year-old Oleksandr Zibrov, who, together with other comrades, came under a repeated Russian strike on January 9 in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, has passed away," said the head of the State Emergency Service, Andriy Danyk.
13.15 As of Monday morning, the restoration of heat is underway in 1,331 houses in Kyiv . This was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction - Minister of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine Oleksiy Kuleba on Telegram.
To restore heat to the homes of Kyiv residents, 166 emergency repair teams are working. This is 847 specialists who work every day and every night.
12.40 On Monday night, Ukrainian military personnel struck the infrastructure of the Slavyansk Eco oil refinery in the city of Slavyansk-na-Kuban, Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, as well as a number of other Russian facilities. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.
12.25 A foreign mercenary from the Philippines, John Patrick, was eliminated in the Donetsk region. He served in the 9th assault company of the 3rd battalion of the 283rd regiment of the 144th motorized rifle division of the 20th combined arms army of the Russian Armed Forces.
"Like many other foreign mercenaries, Patrick died during a "meat assault" near the settlement of Novoselivka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region. The invader had only weapons, ammunition and a piece of paper with the unit number, telephone number and name of the commander. He did not know Russian," the GUR said.
According to data from the Filipino's seized electronic devices, his basic training lasted only a week, after which the foreigner was sent to the front line. "He was wounded and slowly dying in the forest - no evacuation was planned," military intelligence added.
12.06 Temporarily occupied Luhansk came under attack by Ukrainian strike drones. This was reported by the Russian Gauleiter of the occupied territory of Luhansk, Leonid Pasichnyk, in Telegram. At least 10 drones "cynically" attacked the energy facilities of the "republic".
11.45 A new round of talks between delegations from Ukraine, the US and Russia is to take place next week in Abu Dhabi. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a comment to Russian propagandists. For Russia, the "territorial issue", which is supposedly part of the "Anchorage formula", is of fundamental importance, he noted.
11.03 The Czech company SPARK, in cooperation with volunteers, supplies Ukraine with fiber-optic FPV drones , manufactured using technologies from intercepted Russian drones.
The new FPV drone called Jan Žižka uses fiber-optic communication, making it immune to electronic warfare, and its cost is three times lower than its counterparts.
The SPARK company took Russian technology as a basis. The Ukrainian military handed over to volunteers a captured drone, the Prince Vandal Novgorodsky, which operated on fiber optics. The company's engineers studied the device in detail and created a new model based on it.
10.39 In the Mykolaiv region, a 21-year-old serviceman from one of the air defense units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked for the Russian occupiers. The SBU reported this . The serviceman "leaked" data to the enemy about the air defense system near the operational airfields of the Ukrainian troops.
10.17 The case of the head of a Russian aviation corporation that produces aircraft for the war against Ukraine has been referred to court.
Since 2022, the head of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (a structure of the Rostec state corporation) has ensured the stable operation of defense aircraft production. Under his leadership, the enterprise carried out the production, repair, and modernization of military and special aviation equipment, which the Russian Armed Forces systematically use during the full-scale aggression against Ukraine.
These are combat and strategic aircraft Su, MiG, Tu, Il, as well as other military aircraft.
10.00 A new Upyr-18 kamikaze drone has appeared in service with the Russian troops. The occupiers have allegedly already begun using this strike drone in the war against Ukraine, Russian media report.
According to the Russian side, Upyr-18 drones are used in the Kupyansk and Kramatorsk directions. The drones are capable of carrying ammunition weighing up to 10 kg and operating at a distance of several dozen kilometers.
Drones can be used not only for strikes, but also to deliver cargo to Russian units on the front line.
The Upir belongs to the class of FPV quadcopters. It can carry RKG-3M, RPG-7 grenades, as well as homemade high-explosive fragmentation bombs, which are made using epoxy glue and gunpowder.
09.43 In Odessa, the building of the astronomical observatory in Shevchenko Park has been damaged due to Russian attacks. Many windows and doors are damaged, there is other damage. Despite the damage, the planetarium continues its work.
08.54 On the night of January 26, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 138 Shahed, Gerber and other types of drones, about 90 of them Shaheds.
Air defenses shot down and suppressed 110 enemy Shahed, Gerbera and other types of drones in the north and east of the country. 21 strike UAVs were recorded hitting 11 locations, as well as the fall of downed ones (fragments) at one location.
08.21 Over the past 24 hours, 138 combat clashes were recorded on the front, with the largest number of battles in the Pokrovsky and Hulyaypil directions. Aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck four areas of concentration of personnel and four other important objects of the Russian invaders.
07.30 The Russian military attacked Zaporizhia again, delivering four strikes on the city. Private houses were damaged. A fire broke out in one of the houses. Rescuers have already extinguished the fire. No people were injured, it was previously reported.
07.15 From February 24, 2022 to January 26, 2026, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,235,060 people (+1,020 per day).
04.10 Slavyansk-on-Kuban, in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, was attacked by UAVs. Locals heard 5-7 explosions. Monitoring sites write that an attack is underway on the Slavyansk Refinery.
02.02 Ossetians attacked Zaporizhzhia and the city of Vilniansk with Shaheda. A fire broke out in Vilniansk. High-rise buildings there were damaged - windows were broken, facades were damaged. Also, a fire broke out in Zaporizhzhia at the site of the attack.