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What the drone war looked like on 11 January
Summary
A look back at overnight strikes on both sides of the border, in the days before 16 January 2026.
What did the drone war look like in the days before 16 January 2026? One snapshot comes from 11 January, when overnight attacks hit civilians on both sides of the frontier.
In Ukraine, Russian drones struck targets across the country overnight. At least four people were killed and 20 others injured. The spread of the attacks, which were not confined to a single region, showed how far the drones reached beyond the front line.
In Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack on Voronezh overnight killed a woman and damaged around a dozen residential buildings.
What the pattern shows
The two incidents shared a form: overnight drone strikes that ended up harming residential areas and civilians. The Ukrainian casualty count was higher, with four dead and 20 injured against one death in Voronezh, but both episodes underlined that long-range drones were a routine tool for each side as the war continued into 2026.
For international readers, the lesson is the persistence of this exchange. Strikes of this kind were still producing civilian casualties and damaged homes in January 2026, well before any later developments.
