By Max Hunder Jan 24 (Reuters) - Russia launched another vast attack on Ukraine's energy system in the small hours of Saturday, rocking Kyiv with explosions throughout the night and leaving 1.2 million properties without power countrywide.

Moscow reported a new gain in the Kharkiv region while Kiev condemned overnight attacks during Abu Dhabi negotiations.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this week that around 4,000 buildings in the capital Kyiv were still without heating and most of the city was cut off from electricity after Russian strikes.

Jan 24 (Reuters) - Ukraine's two largest cities came under Russian attacks early on Saturday, injuring two people in the capital Kyiv and 11 in Kharkiv in the northeast, officials said. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the two injured in the capital were in serious condition and being treated in hospital.

Humanitarian group Save Ukraine is getting children back to their home country.

Abu Dhabi hosts trilateral meeting with the U.S., Ukraine and Russia in a possible sign that the nearly four-year war could be coming to an end.

MOSCOW, Jan 21 (Reuters) - An Uzbek man was handed a life sentence on Wednesday after a military court in Moscow found him guilty of killing top Russian general Igor Kirillov and his assistant in a Ukraine-backed bomb attack in 2024.

This is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,429 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has detained two agents of Russia's military intelligence (GRU) tasked with assessing the aftermath of an Oreshnik ballistic missile strike on civilian infrastructure in Lviv Oblast overnight on Jan.