Russian missiles, drones target Kyiv on freezing night amid deepening energy crisis
Russian missiles, drones target Kyiv on freezing night amid deepening energy crisis
Russian missiles, drones target Kyiv on freezing night amid deepening energy crisis
Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles and drones overnight on Jan. 20, as the country faces freezing temperatures and a deepening energy crisis.
Kyiv is currently enduring its most difficult winter of Russia's full-scale war, brought on by a relentless Russian assault on the city's energy facilities. President Volodymyr Zelensky declared a state of emergency in the energy sector on Jan. 14 due to the heightened attacks.
Explosions were heard in Kyiv at around 2 a.m., Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported. At around the same time, the Air Force warned that Russian ballistic missiles were targeting the capital.
The Air Force soon afterwards issued additional ballistic missile warnings for Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Vinnytsia oblasts. The military then said Russia had launched MiG-31 bombers, carriers of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.