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What the overnight drone attacks of January 2026 showed
Summary
A look back at reported casualties on both sides of the border after overnight drone strikes.
What did the overnight drone strikes reported around 12 January 2026 amount to on the ground? According to reports dated 11 January 2026, the previous night brought casualties in both Ukraine and Russia.
In Ukraine, Russian drone attacks across the country killed at least four people and injured 20 others, as reported at the time. The reports described the strikes as hitting civilians.
On the Russian side, an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Voronezh killed a woman and damaged around a dozen residential buildings, according to the same reporting.
The two accounts, published on the same day, showed the war's drone campaigns reaching residential areas in both countries. The reports gave no further detail on the locations hit in Ukraine or on the damage there beyond the casualty figures.
