Hundreds of drones and missiles struck Kyiv and Kharkiv overnight, leaving thousands of homes without heat.

Russian forces have attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and its second-largest city, Kharkiv, as a supposed weeklong truce amid winter conditions ended, according to Ukrainian officials.

‍Russia ‍attacked with 450 drones and more than 60 ⁠missiles overnight, ​Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii ‍Sybiha said on Tuesday, accusing ‍Moscow of having waited for temperatures to drop before renewing its targeting of energy infrastructure amid brutal subzero conditions.

United States President Donald Trump said last week that Russia had agreed to pause attacks on Ukraine’s cities amid the freezing weather. Moscow has concentrated fire on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure every winter since its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

At least two people were wounded in the capital and two others in Kharkiv amid the barrage on Tuesday, officials said.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali ⁠Klitschko ​said 1,170 ‍residential buildings ⁠in the capital were left ​without ‌heating as temperatures dropped to -17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit).

Russia targeted Kyiv “in the bitter cold with another massive strike” overnight, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration, said on Telegram, urging residents to remain in shelters.

The attacks affected five city districts, causing damage to three apartment blocks and a building housing a kindergarten, he said.

Footage on social media showed the upper floors of an apartment building in the capital engulfed in flames.

According to unconfirmed media reports, two thermal power plants in the capital were hit.

‘Maximum destruction’

Russian attacks on energy infrastructure in recent weeks have knocked out heating and power to hundreds of residential blocks in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Tuesday’s attacks aimed to “cause maximum destruction … and leave the city without heat during severe frost”.

As a result of the attacks, officials had to cut heating to 820 buildings to drain coolant in order to prevent the wider network from freezing, he said.

Public broadcaster Suspilne said the attacks had knocked out power in the towns of Izyum and Balakliya in Kharkiv region, and struck two apartment buildings in the ⁠northern city of Sumy.

Ivan Fedorov, military administrator in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, said on Telegram that a 38-year-old woman had been killed in a drone attack in a suburb.

So-called truce fails

Trump had announced on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to his personal request to halt attacks on “Kyiv and various towns” amid the bitterly cold winter weather.

Moscow said it had agreed to the request, but said the truce would last only until Sunday, and did not link the measure to the freezing temperatures.

Kyiv, which had welcomed the move, said the truce was supposed to continue for a week from January 30, but reported that Moscow had kept up its attacks anyway.

The attacks came as Russian and Ukrainian officials prepare to meet for a new round of US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

“Neither anticipated diplomatic efforts ​in ‌Abu Dhabi this week nor [Putin’s] promises to ‌the United States ‌kept him ⁠from continuing terror against ordinary people in the ‌harshest winter,” Sybiha wrote on social media.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia was prioritising more attacks over peace talks.

“Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than turning to diplomacy,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.

Zelenskyy had suggested on Monday that recent “de-escalation” with Russia was helping build trust in the negotiations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department, citing the partial federal government shutdown, said Monday that it will not release the January jobs report on Friday as scheduled.

In a statement, the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said: “Once funding is restored, BLS will resume normal operations and notify the public of any changes to the news release schedule.’’ It is also postponing the December report on job openings, which was supposed to come out Tuesday.

The jobs report and other key economic statistics were previously delayed by a record 43-day government shutdown last fall.

Economists had expected the January jobs report to show that employers added 80,000 jobs last month, up from 50,000 in December.

The delay in data comes at a bad time. The economy is in a puzzling place.

Growth is strong: Gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — advanced from July through September at the fastest pace in two years.

But the job market is sluggish: Employers have added just 28,000 jobs a month since March. In the 2021-2023 hiring boom that followed COVID-19 lockdowns, by contrast, they were creating 400,000 jobs a month.

Economists are trying to figure out if hiring will accelerate to catch up to strong growth or if growth will slow to match weak hiring, or if advances in artificial intelligence and automation mean that the economy can roar ahead without creating many jobs.

Violent clashes broke out during a large protest in Turin, Italy, over the weekend as anarchist and leftists attacked police, prompting Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to strongly condemn the unrest and vow a firm response.

Videos from the scene showed demonstrators dressed in black confronting police, with footage appearing to capture objects being thrown at officers and police lines forced backward. Images from Reuters showed riot police surrounded by red smoke during clashes linked to a march in support of the Askatasuna social center, which authorities recently evicted. Experts say the building had been occupied by far-left activists for decades.

Italian authorities said 108 security personnel were injured in the violence. Protesters hurled bottles, stones, homemade incendiary devices and smoke bombs, set fire to rubbish bins and a police armored vehicle, and used street furniture and uprooted lampposts as weapons, European media reported.

Commenting on the violence, U.S. and Europe analyst Matthew Tyrmand told Fox News Digital, “It’s not that dissimilar to what you see in the U.S. at times,” he said. “Think about Seattle, or Cop City in Atlanta or Portland. It’s the same odd coalition of leftist groups, anarchists, pro-Palestinian groups and random individuals coming together.”

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Meloni responded forcefully, warning that violence against police and threats to public order would not be tolerated. In a post on X, the prime minister shared photos from a hospital visit with injured officers and described the confrontations in stark terms.

“This morning I went to the Le Molinette hospital in Turin to bring, on behalf of Italy, my solidarity to two of the officers who were injured in yesterday’s clashes,” Meloni wrote, adding: “Against them: hammers, Molotov cocktails, nail-filled paper bombs, stones launched with catapults, blunt objects of every kind, and jammers to prevent the police from communicating.”

Quoting one officer, Meloni added: “They were there to kill us.” She went on to say: “These are not protesters. These are organized criminals. This is attempted murder.”

Dr. Lorenzo Vidino, director of the program on extremism at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital that while the images were shocking, the violence itself was not unprecedented. “Torino in particular is a hotbed of anarchist and hardcore communist groups,” Vidino said. “But we’ve had this in many other places in Italy, and it happens throughout Europe.”

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Vidino said the unrest followed what he called the recent “liberation” of Askatasuna, a building occupied for decades by far-left activists, which he described as a catalyst for a broader reaction.

“What you have here is a network of not just Italian but European anarchists and communists, with some pro-Palestinian groups,” he said. “It’s a fairly well-established coalition of groups, and they routinely engage in this sort of violence. Antifa is also part of this coalition. It’s one of the umbrella movements in what happened in Torino.”

Vidino also pointed to links between the groups involved and a previous attack on the offices of La Stampa, one of Italy’s most prominent newspapers, which he described as a turning point for authorities.

“Storming the offices of a major newspaper crossed a red line,” Vidino said. 

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On Monday, Meloni said she chaired a meeting at Palazzo Chigi to assess what she called “serious episodes of violence against the police forces” and to determine measures to guarantee public safety.

Tyrmand said the clashes reflect Italy’s long history of militant left-wing activism.

“Italy has a long history of hardcore leftist organizing,” he said. “They’re cut from the same cloth. Marxist movements are truly of their genesis.”

“When a right-wing leader like Meloni comes into power, they get especially ginned up,” he added. “Violence is their modus operandi. I expect it will be quelled because Meloni is a tough figure.”

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He added that the tactics and alliances mirror those seen during U.S. street protests and encampments.

“It’s the same dynamics,” Vidino said. “A permanent presence of these networks that mobilize quickly around symbolic causes.”