Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.

At least three people were killed in the assault on the capital, and at least one died and 11 were wounded in a separate strike in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

Russia dispatched over 60 drones for attacks on Ukraine, of which 43 were shot down and 15 were electronically neutralised. The heaviest fighting is taking place near Pokrovsk. Russian forces conducted night-time attacks on Ukraine,