- According to Bloomberg, special representatives of the U.S. President Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are planning to visit Moscow for negotiations with Vladimir Putin.
- Vitaliy Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, noted that the situation in the capital is extremely difficult: "There has not been a scale like this in four years of full-scale war."
A heated tent to assist the residents of Kyiv. Photo by Yuliia Ovsiannikova / Avalon / IMAGO. - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the establishment of a headquarters to coordinate actions in Kyiv and the introduction of a state of emergency in the energy sector.
- The company "Ukrenergo" reported the introduction of hourly power outages and capacity restrictions for industrial consumers throughout Ukraine on Thursday.
- The governor of the Volgograd region, Andrey Bocharov, reported that air defense forces successfully repelled a drone attack on transport and energy infrastructure facilities in the region.
- Two local residents were injured as a result of a Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia region, where a store and a private house were destroyed.
- In the Rostov region, a kindergarten was damaged due to a drone attack.
- In the Dnipropetrovsk region, several residential buildings and enterprises were affected by a missile strike on the night of January 14.
- The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the appointment of Denys Shmyhal as Minister of Energy and First Deputy Prime Minister, while Mykhailo Fedorov became the new Minister of Defense.
- A bill was also passed to extend martial law and mobilization in the country for 90 days, until May 4.
