By hitting offshore oil platforms deep in the Caspian Sea, Ukraine has extended its campaign against Russia’s energy lifeline and challenged assumptions about what targets are safe.

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.

Russia has launched a second major drone and missile attack of Ukraine in four days, killing four people, and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia fired almost 300 attack drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles at eight regions overnight and into Tuesday local time.

EADaily, January 9th, 2026. Ukrainian media reported that as a result of massive strikes by the Russian army on the night of January 9, Europe's largest underground gas storage facility in the Lviv region was hit.

Russia's second Oreshnik IRBM attack was part of a huge missile and drone barrage, but its significance may have been mainly symbolic.