Russian troops attacked the south of the Odesa region with strike drones at night. The strike caused several fires and left one person injured, according to Odesa Regional military administration head Oleh Kiper.

Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO-member Poland, in what Kyiv's European allies on Friday described as an attempt to intimidate them from supporting Ukraine.

Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, striking key energy facilities amid freezing temperatures. The attacks left hundreds of thousands without power and caused widespread damage, killing at least four people.

Russian strikes hit the city of Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Lviv Oblast on the night of 8-9 January. The main targets were residential areas, as well as critical and transport infrastructure.

Russia said that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western governments would be "legitimate combat targets", after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in the event of a ceasefire.

Russia doubled down on its longstanding position of declaring Western forces in Ukraine “legitimate targets” on Thursday, days after France and the UK pledged to send troops there in the event of a peace deal.

Explosions were reported in the western city of Lviv after the threat of an intermediate-range ballistic missile was detected from Russia’s Kapustin Yar site just before midnight, the Ukrainian

Jan 9 (Reuters) - The Russian military said it had fired ‌its ​hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target ‌in Ukraine in response to what it described as an attempted Ukrainian drone strike on ​one of President Vladimir Putin's residences last month, which Kyiv has denied.

Russia launched dozens of drones into Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, as European leaders prepared to meet in Paris to discuss security guarantees in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Air Force said on Tuesday that Russian forces had launched 293 drones and 18 missiles in the bombardment that began late on Monday, as the country faces its harshest winter since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022.