18 January 2025 in Russo-Ukrainian war

• Kyiv was attacked by Russian attack drones at night
• An air alert was announced in Kyiv and a number of regions due to the threat of ballistic missiles
• In the morning, Russia attacked Kyiv and other regions with ballistic missiles, three were killed
• Air defense forces of Ukraine shot down 2 out of 4 ballistic missiles
• The Russians hit critical infrastructure in the Kherson region, one person died
• Russia hit Zaporizhzhia with ballistic missiles, ten injured
• GUR drones set fire to an oil depot in the Tula region of the Russian Federation
• The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Estonia does not consider it a reasonable idea to close the border with the Russian Federation
• Drones hit the Rosneft oil depot in Lyudinovo
• The leader of the far-right in Bavaria called for the expulsion of Ukrainian refugees
• Merkel said that without the support of the United States, Ukraine will not survive as an independent state
• The Russians shelled Berislav with a mortar: two people were killed
• The SBU in Dnipropetrovsk region exposed a company that assisted the Russian Federation in the construction of nuclear laboratories
• The defense forces withdrew from the refractory plant in Chasovoy Yar
• The leader of the far-right in Austria said that his party is not pro-Russian
• Armed Forces: Russians attacked the Pokrovsky direction more than 80 times and lost 335 soldiers
• The mayor of Warsaw called for allocating 5% of GDP to defense
• The Russians have advanced near Velika Novosilka, storming the areas of the settlement
• The Russians attacked six communities of the Sumy Oblast, carrying out more than 40 shellings
• ISW: The Russians are raising additional forces to step up their offensive on Pokrovsk
• During the day, 200 clashes took place at the front, half of them only in the Pokrovsky direction
• Armed Forces: Russia lost another 1,580 soldiers in the war against Ukraine