Russian massive strike on the Ukraine this weekend has left Kyiv without power….
The use of the Russian IRBM is being seen as a empty threat…
Russia has few of the missile and the recent attack with the missle had no warhead …
Zelensky is still talking while Putin is NOT….
Ukraine has also knocked out power in the Russian area of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine…
The Brits seem intent on seeming troops to Ukraine AFTER the conflict has a holding ceasefire…
Meanwhile?
Trump the Real Estate guy is working a $800B reconstruction deal for Ukraine after the War….
I wonder what ole Donald will get out of this if he can?
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Engineers in Kyiv scrambled on Saturday to stabilise a power grid brought to the brink by a campaign of Russian strikes, including one two nights ago. The city’s residents huddled against bitter winter cold inside their unheated apartments on Saturday as engineers worked to restore power, water and heat. Prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that the power situation in the capital was still difficult, as the grid was badly damaged and people were using more electric heaters because of the cold.
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Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha confirmed Saturday the UN security council would hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss Russia’s latest large-scale attack on Ukraine, which used an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile. “The meeting will address Russia’s flagrant breaches of the UN Charter,” Sybiha wrote on X.
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Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said major attacks by Russia on Friday “have resulted in significant civilian casualties and deprived millions of Ukrainians of essential services, including electricity, heating and water at a time of acute humanitarian need.”
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s lead negotiator Rustem Umerov spoke with representatives of the United States on Saturday as Kyiv and Washington seek to agree on a framework to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. “We continue to communicate with the American side on practically a daily basis,” Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram app.
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The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said on Saturday that 600,000 residents were without electricity, heating and water after a Ukrainian missile strike. In a statement posted on Telegram, Vyacheslav Gladkov said that work was under way to restore supplies, but that the situation was “extremely challenging”.
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A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia’s southern Volgograd region, officials said Saturday. Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday it had struck the Zhutovskaya oil depot overnight. In a statement on Telegram, it said the depot is supplying fuel to Russian forces, adding that damage was being assessed. Ukraine’s military said that besides the oil depot in Volgograd, it had struck a drone storage facility belonging to a unit of Russia’s 19th Motor Rifle Division in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, as well as a drone command and control point near the eastern city of Pokrovsk.
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An overnight Ukrainian drone attack injured at least four people and damaged several buildings in Russia’s southern city of Voronezh, the governor of the Voronezh region said on Sunday. An emergency service facility, seven apartment buildings and six houses were damaged as a result of the attack, the governor, Alexander Gusev, said on the Telegram messaging app.
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Russia’s defence ministry said Saturday that its forces used aviation, drones, missiles and artillery to strike Ukrainian energy facilities and fuel-storage depots on Friday and overnight. It did not immediately specify the targets or damage….
ISW…Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 10, 2026
- Available visual evidence indicates that the Russian Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) strike on the night of January 8 to 9 struck a Ukrainian defense industrial enterprise in Lviv City.
- Russian officials are explicitly using the recent Oreshnik strike to deter Western states from deploying troops to post-war Ukraine, in line with ISW’s assessment about the purpose of the strike.
- The United Kingdom (UK) is preparing for the possible deployment of troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees in a future peace agreement.
- Ukraine continues to collaborate with its Western partners to expand the production of the interceptor drones that are crucial to Ukraine’s ability to down Russian long-range drones on the front and in the rear.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area.
Daily Kos grunt Report for Today…
On the Russian Oreshnik IRBM missile strike on Ukraine….
Regarding Russia’s use of an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile against Lviv:
It seems that just like the first use of the
Russian massive strike on the Ukraine this weekend has left Kyiv without power….
The use of the Russian IRBM is being seen as a empty threat…
Russia has few of the missile and the recent attack with the missle had no warhead …
Zelensky is still talking while Putin is NOT….
against Ukraine in November 2024, this missile did not carry explosives in its warheads. It relied on the kinetic energy of the multiple warheads to penetrate its target, which was either a very large underground gas storage site or an aircraft repair plant. Fortunately, that failed.
Russian bloggers say Russia wasn’t trying to hit anything, just show Europe what big cojones they have.
Russia doesn’t have many Oreshniks, not enough to make regular use of them. But Oreshnik has the advantage of not facing defenses that can bring it down. The Patriot system is not designed to intercept missiles moving at Mach 10 and descending from high altitudes.
The American THAAD system and the Israeli Arrow-3 can bring it down (in theory, since it hasn’t been tried in combat), but Ukraine doesn’t have those systems. And even if they acquired some, they couldn’t acquire enough to cover the entire country.
Having said all that, Oreshnik is not the dire threat to Ukraine it seems (as this article points out) simply because there are so few of them. Russia has a battery in Kapustin Yar, which is a shithole of a town about 100 km east of Volgograd. And supposedly some have been supplied to Belarus.
Overall, the use of a single Oreshnik IRBM without warheads and the possibility that nothing of military value was hit, suggests that the missile was primarily used as an instrument of intimidation. It’s also unclear how many of these expensive IRBMs have actually been manufactured at this point, and whether Russia would even be able to fire multiple examples in any kind of sustained campaign. According to an assessment from the U.K. Ministry of Defense, Russia currently has only a handful of Oreshniks.
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