Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported 521 air attack means, including 71 missiles and 450 strike drones, with air defenses destroying 38 missiles and 412 drones.
- Kyiv faced major heating losses as 1,170 apartment buildings went without heat and the Darnytska thermal plant suffered severe damage that officials say will take significant time to repair.
- Regional outages spread widely, with Kharkiv forced to drain heat from at least 820 buildings, over 50,000 Odesa residents losing power, 50 settlements in Vinnytsia cut off, roughly 8,600 Dnipro customers without heat, and about 16,000 people in Lozova left without heating.
- Officials recorded civilian casualties across several regions, with early counts of at least nine injured rising to at least 12, and an evening strike on Zaporizhzhia killing two 18-year-olds and injuring 11 people, including three children.
- The attack preceded Feb. 4–5 trilateral meetings in Abu Dhabi as President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine’s negotiation approach will be recalibrated, and NATO’s Mark Rutte said the strikes undercut Moscow’s seriousness while partners work to accelerate air-defense deliveries.