Russia resumed drone and missile strikes on Ukraine on Tuesday after a brief US-mediated truce ended on Monday night.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv city’s military administration, said in a social media post that Russia hit Kyiv “in the bitter cold with another massive strike” overnight.
The regional military chief, Oleh Synehubov, also confirmed that Russian forces carried out strikes in the eastern city of Kharkiv, wounding two people. The Ukrainian emergency services later said at least three people were wounded in the fresh drone attack.
“The hours-long attack targeted energy infrastructure and aimed to cause maximum destruction… and leave the city without heat during severe frost,” Synehubov said.
The strikes came after Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accused Russia of targeting the country’s railway infrastructure after having struck its energy infrastructure.
US President, Donald Trump, said last Thursday that he had had a word with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on halting strikes in the current cold weather conditions, and that Putin had agreed. Kremlin also confirmed that its forces would respect the truce “at least until Sunday”.
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Meanwhile, in the midst of plunging temperatures, thousands of Ukrainians are left without power after constant Russian strikes on the country’s power units. Ukraine’s minimum temperature dropped to minus 17 degrees Celsius in recent days, and even sunk to as low as minus 23 degrees Celsius in the hardest-hit Kharkiv, where 80 per cent of electricity infrastructure is already in ruins owing to Russian attacks.
The Russia-Ukraine war is set to enter its fifth year on February 24, with peace talks, initiated by the US, failing to reach a conclusion so far. Washington’s mediators have scheduled the second round of peace talks in Abu Dhabi this week, after the first round of the much-hyped trilateral talks ended in a stalemate last week.
Zelenskyy, whose term has already expired, said on Monday that recent “de-escalation” with Russia was helping build trust in negotiations, apparently referring to a break in attacks on energy facilities.
He did add, however, that despite 90 per cent formalities having been finalised, territorial issue remains a major deadlock. Russia has remained firm on its insistence that Kyiv withdraw from the eastern Donetsk region.
Russia has already seized 20 per cent of Ukraine’s territory since the onset of war in 2022, and has vowed to achieve all its stated objectives by force if Kyiv rejects demands for a negotiated settlement. Moscow seized 481 square kilometres (186 square miles) in January, according to analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War, which works with the Critical Threats Project.
January gains were up from 244 square kilometres in December 2025 and represent one of the largest advances during a winter month since 2022.
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