Russian overnight attacks kill 3, injure 24 across multiple Ukrainian regions

Russian attacks across Ukraine overnight on January 28, 2026, killed at least three civilians and injured 24 others, with Kyiv and the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions among those hit, Ukrainian authorities reported.

ZMINA reports on the current situation.

A multi-story residential building in Kyiv damaged by Russian shelling

Russian forces launched nearly 150 projectiles overnight, including a ballistic missile and an array of drones. Ukrainian defenders intercepted more than 100 of the targets, though the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported strikes by missiles and 36 drones at 22 separate locations.

In Kyiv, falling drone debris damaged residential buildings; however, emergency crews successfully mitigated the consequences by 7:00 a.m.

A residential building on fire in the Kyiv region following a Russian strike on the night of January 28, 2026

In the Kyiv region, two people were confirmed dead, and four others were injured, including two children, as of Wednesday morning. Rescue workers discovered the bodies of the deceased beneath the rubble of destroyed structures.

Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration, and the National Police of Ukraine reported that Russians conducted a drone attack on the Bilohorodka hromada in the Kyiv Oblast. A husband and wife have been killed, while their four-year-old child has received medical treatment. Three other people have also been injured.

“The Bilohorodka hromada was affected in the attack by the terrorist state. A high-rise residential building has been damaged. A fire has broken out on the roof and the top floor,” Kalashnyk said. 

A journalist, Natalya Sedletska, reported on Facebook that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) frontline correspondent Marian Kushnir rescued a 4-year-old girl during the overnight Russian drone attack. Kushnir carried the child out of her apartment as it was being engulfed in flames following a direct hit by a Russian drone.

Kushnir said that a drone crashed into the roof of our building, hitting the upper two-story apartment.

“I saw the fire, grabbed my editorial tactical backpack, and ran upstairs to find the explosion site. I saw a door slightly ajar where the impact had occurred. I opened it — and saw a child lying on a sofa, wrapped in a blanket, crying, screaming, and calling for her mother,” Marian Kushnir recounted.

Marian Kushnir

“I saw the fire already spreading from above. I realized that the parents were likely sleeping on the second floor. I quickly snatched the child from the sofa, carried her out of the apartment, handed her to one of the neighbors, and ran back inside, hoping people might still be alive. But the fire had already spread too far. From what I learned later, the drone hit in such a way that those two people — a man and a woman — were pinned under the debris and died there,” Kushnir said.

“The enemy struck the Mezhova and Vasylkivka hromadas in the Synelnykove district using drones. Sadly, a 46-year-old man has been killed. Five people have been injured. A 24-year-old is in a critical condition. A car has been damaged,” Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, stated. 

Oleksandr Vilkul, Head of Kryvyi Rih Defence Council, reported that Russians have conducted a ballistic missile strike on an infrastructure facility in the city of Kryvyi Rih. According to Vilkul, two people, a 51-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man, were injured in this ballistic missile attack.

Meanwhile, in Zaporizhzhia, which Russian forces targeted with guided aerial bombs, officials reported six injured adults.

A crater left by a Russian aerial bomb in Zaporizhzhia on the night of January 28, 2026

In the Odesa region, which has come under Russian attack for the second consecutive night, officials reported three injuries and significant destruction, including damage to a church and residential neighborhoods.

The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) reported that Russian forces launched a fresh attack on the Port of Pivdennyi on the night of January 28, targeting critical maritime and transport hubs. The strike of Russians damaged production and railway infrastructure, igniting a fire that was quickly contained by the facility’s emergency teams.

No casualties were reported, and the port remains operational.

Yaroslav Shanko, head of the Kherson City Military Administration, reported that two medical workers were injured in a Russian attack on a hospital in the Dniprovskyi District of Kherson on the morning of January 28. In addition, a woman has sustained injuries in a separate Russian attack. Shanko later reported that at around 08:40, Russian forces also bombarded the central part of Kherson, leaving a 63-year-old woman with blast injuries and a partial amputation of her lower leg. The woman was taken to the hospital.

This follows a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine the previous night that resulted in civilian casualties. In the city of Brody, located in the Lviv Oblast, local authorities canceled school classes due to the aftermath of the hostile attacks.