While the ground war in eastern Ukraine has settled into a grinding war of attrition, where Russian forces sacrifice hundreds, sometimes thousands, of troops a day, for small, incremental advances, the air war has the two sides inflicting significant losses on each other's energy sector.

On the morning of January 18, explosions were heard in Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Russia has once again launched drone attacks on Ukraine, and in response, air defense forces are active, according to the Telegram channel of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration and the channel of Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko.