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Russia attacks Kyiv with ballistic missiles, targeting city on freezing night amid energy crisisRussia attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles overnight on Jan. 20, as the city faces freezing temperatures and a deepening energy crisis. Kyiv is currently facing its most difficult winter of Russia's full-scale war,
The barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles killed at least one 50-year-old man. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
With temperatures falling as low as minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit in Kyiv, Ukraine is seeing one of the coldest winters in years, deepening the hardship of Ukrainians almost four years after Russia launched a full-scale invasion.
An intense wave of Russian drone attacks has left hundreds of thousands of households in the Kyiv region without power, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, as temperatures fall well below freezing.
Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s capital on Friday using new ballistic missile that it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable by air defences. The strikes coincide with a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington and send a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies.
Moscow has stepped up a winter campaign against Ukraine’s battered energy system while grinding forward on the battlefield.
President Zelensky says Russia has started using "far more" ballistic missiles in its attacks on Ukraine.