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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,
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.
Russia hit Kyiv with its hypersonic Oreshnik missile, only the second time it has used the nuclear-capable weapon in the war with Ukraine. The strike is believed to be a strong message to the West including the US amid Trump's military aggression across the world.
Moscow has stepped up a winter campaign against Ukraine’s battered energy system while grinding forward on the battlefield.