Military blogger Boris Rozhin has linked the continued strikes by Ukrainian forces on Belgorod to an attempt to retaliate for large-scale power outages across central and eastern regions of Ukraine.

According to his assessment, Ukrainian troops are unable to cope with the current situation. Against this backdrop, he believes that Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure will not stop and are set to continue.

Rozhin also suggested that further attacks would follow overnight, arguing that not all thermal power plants and combined heat and power stations have yet been taken offline.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continue to rely on unmanned aerial vehicles to strike Russian regions, targeting not only border areas but also territories located hundreds of kilometers from Ukraine. During the night of January 26, a large-scale drone attack was recorded. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that air defense systems destroyed 40 drones, 34 of which were intercepted over the territory of Krasnodar Krai.