- February 12, 2026
- 11:56 am
- World News
Last night on February 12, 2026, Russian forces once again launched a combined strike on Ukrainian cities. Shahed-type drones and ballistic missiles were used, targeting thermal generation facilities and infrastructure on which the lives of millions of people directly depend.
The result is quickly measured not by military reports, but by numbers in utility reports.
What is happening in Kyiv after new hits
In the capital, about 2600 residential buildings were additionally left without heating. Approximately 1100 were already without heat before this attack due to previous damage and overloaded networks.
Water is still being supplied. The sewage system is working.
However, city services openly warn residents about the risk of repeated strikes and ask them to have a supply of both drinking and technical water. This is a standard civil defense formula, but behind it lies the understanding that energy facilities remain a priority target.
A strike on resilience, not just on facilities
When the temperature is below the seasonal norm, each boiler taken out of service becomes a district-scale problem.
This is pressure on hospitals, schools, transport, business operations.
And this is pressure on people who must decide whether to stay or leave.
The situation in the south and center of the country
In Odesa, about 300,000 people were left without water supply due to power outages. Almost two hundred homes were left without heat.
In Dnipro, heating was stopped for about ten thousand subscribers. For an industrial and logistics hub, this means additional loads on the life support system and evacuation plans.
The destruction of energy is a slow crisis. It does not always provide the picture of an instant catastrophe but stretches over weeks and months.
That is why reports of damage to thermal power plants are read by experts as a long-term strategy.
What goal is visible
There are several versions, but they do not contradict each other.
Moscow is trying to weaken society’s ability to support the front.
At the same time, to make large cities less livable, increasing migration pressure on Europe and creating new social tensions.
Ukrainian authorities speak about this directly, without diplomatic formulas.
In the Israeli media space, such assessments regularly appear in analyses published by journalists of NANews β Israel News | Nikk.Agency, since for Israel, the topic of rear resilience is not an abstract theory but part of its own historical memory.
The question that is getting louder
Against this background, a political aspect inevitably arises.
How are such strikes interpreted by those Western capitals that continue to seek opportunities for negotiations?
What exactly is considered fulfillment or non-fulfillment of promises by the Kremlin?
The formulations are diplomatic, but electricity and heat are either there or not. And this difference cannot be edited in a press release.
What will determine the coming weeks
The main factor is the ability to quickly repair damage.
The second is the availability of backup capacities and equipment.
The third is the readiness of partners to accelerate the supply of defense systems.
Winter always tests infrastructure for strength. In wartime conditions, this test becomes daily.
Cities continue to live. Transport runs, hospitals accept patients, utility services work without pauses.
But each new night returns the region to the same question: how long will the system withstand such a pace of strikes.
