Russian forces launched waves of drone and missile strikes targeting Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk region, and Volyn on New Year’s night, leaving over 100,000 people in Volyn without power and damaging residential buildings in Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk where fires have been contained, according to X posts by @NOELreports in the past 30 minutes. In related developments reported in the same posts during the 9:15 to 9:45 AM UTC window today, at least two drones hit the North Oil Terminal in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, a TATNEFT facility for processing and storing crude from northern oilfields, confirming earlier reports of attacks on the site. A precision drone strike also targeted the Ilsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar region, with an annual capacity of 6.5 million tons, marking the first Russian refinery hit in 2026, per @NOELreports. Two additional Patriot air defense systems have been deployed to protect Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure, following recent agreements with the German government, as stated in another @NOELreports post within the reporting window.
