Russia launched a large-scale overnight attack on Friday, January 30, hitting Ukraine with 111 drones and one Iskander-M ballistic missile, Ukraine’s Air Force said.
The Ukrainian military reported strikes from the missile and 25 strike drones at 15 locations.
Air defenses shot down or intercepted 80 drones, but the attacks continued into the day.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported a major fire in a suburb of Kharkiv after a missile strike hit a warehouse at a civilian enterprise.
The blaze covered more than 5,000 square meters; deminers and more than 80 rescue workers were deployed.
The latest Russian barrage came less than a day after reports of a temporary halt in strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure.
On Thursday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump said Moscow had agreed to stop striking Ukrainian cities for a week due to extreme cold.
“I personally asked Putin not to fire on Kyiv and various cities for a week. He agreed,” the U.S. President said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed there was an understanding with Russia on a temporary pause in attacks on energy infrastructure and praised Trump’s mediation efforts.
He later clarified there had been no direct dialogue and no signed agreements with Russia. Zelensky said that if Russia refrains from striking Ukraine’s energy system, Kyiv will respond in kind.
“I think that’s the response the mediator was counting on, namely the United States,” he said.
Moscow confirmed a call between the U.S. and Russian leaders. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Trump made a personal request that Vladimir Putin refrain from strikes on Kyiv until February 1.
That was needed to create favorable conditions for talks, Peskov said.
He added that Putin agreed to the U.S. president’s request. Peskov declined to specify whether the pause referred to an “energy truce” or a halt to all strikes.
“I have nothing to add on the details,” he said.
