Russian attacks deepened the energy and humanitarian crises in Ukraine during the second week of the year, as temperatures dropped below freezing.
On January 9, Russia pounded Kyiv and several other cities with 242 kamikaze drones and 26 missiles, said Ukraine’s Air Force, which managed to shoot down all but 16 of the drones and 18 missiles.
Even so, the drones and missiles that got through to Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Dnipro, and Lviv killed four people and wounded nearly 30.
The strikes left 6,000 apartment buildings and half a million people without power, heat and water in sub-freezing temperatures, with January winds howling into homes whose windows were shattered.
Approximately 1,000 apartment buildings in Kyiv were still without power two days later.
