Day: January 11, 2026
⚡️Update: Kyiv facing prolonged blackouts amid Russian attacks and freezing temperatures.
Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said it has received over 200 reports of localized outages as of 5 p.m. on Jan. 11.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) Jan 11, 2026
Russia has “repeated almost all the worst things that happened in the 20th century,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) Jan 11, 2026
⚡️Russia ‘repeated fascism,’ Zelensky says as war in Ukraine outlasts Nazi Germany’s war with USSR.
The full-scale war entered its 1,418th day on Jan. 11, matching the length of Nazi Germany’s fight against the Soviet Union during World War II.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) Jan 11, 2026
The U.K. has launched Project Nightfall, a competition to rapidly develop new long-range ballistic missiles for Ukraine. The missiles will be able to travel 500 km (310 miles) and come equipped with a 200 kg (440 lb) warhead.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) Jan 11, 2026
