Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration, stated on Telegram between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. UTC on January 11, 2026, that electricity has been restored to about 5,000 families since morning, with the remaining 25,000 affected subscribers in the region to receive power by the end of the day following massive Russian attacks on energy infrastructure. Kalashnyk acknowledged residents' frustration over prolonged outages, noting power engineers are working non-stop in frosty conditions to connect all homes, including remote areas, and urged calm amid emergency shutdowns caused by enemy strikes exploiting severe weather, as detailed in his Telegram post during the 29-minute reporting window. An X post by ChristopherJM during the same period reported Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has reached 1,418 days, matching the Soviet Union's Eastern Front involvement in World War II from Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, to Germany's surrender on May 9, 1945. @wartranslated posted on X in the reporting window about African mercenary Francis in Russia's army being reassigned from infantryman to kamikaze drone operator, describing such fighters as disposable by their Russian commanders. These updates follow Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko's earlier statement on rapid restoration of heat and electricity in Kyiv city after one of Russia's largest energy attacks, though outages persist with major improvements planned for Thursday, according to previous reports.
