Bombardments killed one person and injured 27 in Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv overnight, authorities said.
Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a damaged residential building following an air attack in Kharkiv on January 24, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian strikes killed one person and injured at least 15 others in Ukraine’s capital and the northeastern city of Kharkiv overnight, authorities said early on January 24.
Ukraine on Saturday accused Russia of undermining negotiations to end their almost four-year war by launching fresh deadly strikes, as officials from both countries and the United States met for a second day of direct talks in Abu Dhabi.Bombardments killed one person and injured 27 in Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv overnight, authorities said, as Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were set for a second day of talks on the latest US-brokered proposals. “Peace efforts? Trilateral meeting in the UAE? Diplomacy? For Ukrainians, this was another night of Russian terror,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said. Ukrainian emmergency personnel work to extinguish a fire at the site of an air attack in Kyiv on January 24, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He said Russia’s President Vladimir Putin “ordered a brutal massive missile strike against Ukraine right while delegations are meeting in Abu Dhabi to advance the America-led peace process. His missiles hit not only our people, but also the negotiation table.”Ukraine’s chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said the discussions focused “on the parameters for ending Russia’s war and the further logic of the negotiation process”. Ukrainian emmergency personnel work to extinguish a fire at the site of an air attack in Kyiv on January 24, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An initial US draft drew heavy criticism in Kyiv and western Europe for hewing too closely to Moscow’s demands, while Russia rejected later versions for proposing European peacekeepers in Ukraine. Both sides say the fate of territory in the eastern Donbas region is the main outstanding issue in the search for a settlement to a war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and devastated parts of Ukraine.US President Donald Trump met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday and US envoy Steve Witkoff later held talks with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.The European Union, which has sent hundreds of generators to Ukraine, has accused Moscow of “deliberately depriving civilians of heat”. In this handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on January 24, 2026, Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a burning petrol truck following an air attack in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Kyiv is under a massive enemy attack,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on Telegram, reporting the latest overnight strikes. He added that several non-residential buildings had been hit. Fires broke out in several buildings hit by drone debris while heat and water services in parts of the capital were interrupted, he said.The strikes left 88,000 families temporarily without power in Kyiv, according to DTEK, Ukraine’s largest energy provider. Meanwhile, the head of the northern Chernigiv region, Vyacheslav Chaus, said “hundreds of thousands” were without electricity after Russian strikes on a critical energy facility in the Nizhyn district. Zelensky last week declared a “state of emergency” in the energy sector, battered by relentless Russian strikes on heat and electricity supplies. While diplomacy to end Europe’s worst conflict since World War II has gained pace, Moscow and Kyiv appear deadlocked over the issue of territory. A local resident inspects his car in front of a damaged residential building following an air attack in Kharkiv on January 24, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Hours after Putin met Witkoff — and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — in Moscow, the Kremlin said its demand that Kyiv withdraw from the eastern Donbas region still stood. “Russia’s position is well known on the fact that Ukraine, Ukrainian armed forces, have to leave the territory of the Donbas,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.Kyiv has rejected such terms. “The Donbas is a key issue,” Zelensky told reporters on Friday, ahead of the talks.Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are last known to have met face-to-face in Istanbul last summer, in talks that ended only in deals to exchange captured soldiers. The Abu Dhabi meeting is the first time they have faced each other to talk about the Trump administration’s plan. Putin has repeatedly said Moscow intends to get full control of eastern Ukraine by force if talks fail.”I believe they’re at a point now where they can come together and get a deal done,” he said on Wednesday.
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