The situation of Ukrainian energy infrastructure is deteriorating, by night of 23/24 January the Russians again made a powerful combined hit on it.
In the face of, speaking in a alternatively sparing way, the management of the facts by our mainstream media, I have gathered available information about the fresh Russian attack on Ukraine's energy and after having critically analysed them, I have gathered them together and made them available to you.
Ukraine stands on the brink of a humanitarian disaster and needs a ceasefire in the energy sector, said at noon on 24.01.2026 in Davos the president of the Ukrainian electricity supply company DTEK Maxim Timchenko: “We request a ceasefire in the energy sector. We're 1 step distant from a humanitarian disaster. People get electricity for 3-4 hours and then there's a 10-15-hour supply break. Residential buildings have been out of heating for weeks. DTEK lost 60-70% of its generation capacity and suffered losses of hundreds of millions of dollars. The reconstruction of the energy sector will cost $65-70 billion and take respective years. Rather, it is the request to make a fresh energy strategy in Ukraine."
Only 4 days after the last mass impact, on the energy of Ukraine, the Russians, further brought out the night of 23/24 January another, trying to lead to a blackout. The Russian attack began at around 8.30 p.m. 23.01.2026 erstwhile on the screens of the Ukrainian OPL radars it was seen that the boundaries of the Chernihov circuit began to exceed many groups of Russian unmanned aircraft Geranja-2, Geranja-4 and Gerbera. At about 21.30 p.m., respective twelve Gernaja-2 drones crossed the border besides in the east and the attack on the Kharkiv began. Mer town of Teriechow reported 25 hits with Gernaja-2 drones. The main mark was the Elbow station 330 kV, located in the industrial region and mobile, large generators.
As of 23.15 p.m., waves of Russian long-range drones began to arrive over Kiev an anti-aircraft alert was announced and the large conflict of the Ukrainian OPL defending the Kiev agglomeration with the Russian raid began. Shortly after midnight, the first drones hit TES-6 and then TES-6. Around 0.30 a.m. Ukrainian channels of surveillance began to inform about ballistic missiles flying in Kiev. At 0.42, a modern difficult-to-detect Ch-69 maneuvering rocket launched from the Su-57 multi-purpose aircraft flying for mark close Chernobyl was spotted. W/g authoritative information of Ukrainian rocket name shot down.
By 0.55 p.m. in Kiev for energy infrastructure The Russians fired 6 ballistic missiles out of which the gross were Iskander-M strategy rockets and the apparent targets of the long-range OPL strategy S-400 and the apparent PM-48U kind targets. The remains of at least 1 S-400 rocket were shown in the morning of January 24. about 1 o'clock a night from the northern border of Ukraine, for the first time since the spring of 2022 3 Tu-22M3 strategical bombers from the 52nd Guarded Far scope Air Force arrived. The second 3 from the area of the Birian circuit, attacked targets in the Kiev Oblast around 1.12
The Tu-22M3 bombers, moving at twice the sound speed, were expected to launch a full of 12 supersonic Ch-32 maneuvering missiles, serving in/g the constructors' assumptions to attack the aircraft carrier from here carrying a powerful warhead of up to 900 kg. These heads were able to destruct Ukrainian energy transformers hidden in specially built Ukrainians, large reinforced concrete sarcophagus.
W/g a message from the Ukrainian Armed Forces from 12 Ch-32 rockets the designation was shot down, utilizing OPL systems including U.S. MIM-104 Patriot and German IRIS-T SLM as many as 9, which does not appear to be credible. So far Ukrainians themselves have claimed that they are incapable to shoot down Ch-22 (the older version of Ch-32) so it is not easy to shoot down its upgraded version.
The impact of strategical bombers attacking with dense supersonic Ch-32 maneuvering missiles indicates that the Russians attempted to "energyly cut Kiev off" from power by destroying completely or causing extended demolition of key energy infrastructure facilities during this night's attack.
Importantly, the Russians besides utilized hypersonic, unshootable, ultra-modern 3M22 "Cyrconia" sea-based rockets that launched the Black Sea from Admiral Essen's frigata. At 0.42, they both hit the largest in Ukraine, a strategical power substation 750KV "Kijeewska". Located in the White Church, a immense substation connecting the Equal atomic Power Plant with Kiev was defended by a strong group of Ukrainian OPLs, including armed with a battery of American anti-aircraft/anti-missile strategy MIM-104 Patriot.
In/g of nonsubjective data, Kiev Heat Power Plant-6 was again hit respective times by Russian rockets and drones, like Elektrociepłownia No. 5 and a number of another objects specified as transformers and power substations. In/in a communication from the Ukrainian Air Force, a full of 375 long-range drones were sent by the Russians to attack, including aviation, OPL (racite, barrel) measures, mobile OPL groups, anti-aircraft drone units, and Radio Electronic Combat measures to shoot down/overpower a full of 357, which seems to be excessive in terms of the harm scale.
The city authorities state that, in view of the hard situation of power supply, Kiev was to leave about 600,000 inhabitants. In the city in many districts there is no supply of not only electricity, but besides heat and even water. In most areas of Kiev current is supplied in/g graphics, for about 4 hours a day.
We can see, therefore, that the Russian side is consistently conducting an air offensive aimed at the Ukrainian energy strategy to origin a humanitarian disaster. This is meant to consequence in social unrest and the consent of the Ukrainian authorities to the conditions of peace dictated by the Russians.
Krzysztof Podgórski
