Houthis Strike Red Sea Ship With Drone On Day US Terror Designation Takes Effect

"Just as the Biden administration has redesignated Yemen's Houthis (or Ansar Allah

movement) a global terrorist organization, the group has again launched an attack on a commercial vessel in the Red Sea, which suffered a direct hit.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) issued a new alert describing an incident 60 nautical miles southeast of Yemen's Aden. The report indicates that "vessel has been hit on the port side by an uncrewed aerial system." ZH

Russian Strike Destroys Building in Kharkov Hosting French Mercenaries

"The Russian military has destroyed a building in Ukraine’s Kharkov that hosted French mercenaries after it launched a precision strike against it." Sputnik

Past 24 hours, 98 combat engagements

"In the past 24 hours, 98 combat engagements were recorded across the front. In total, the enemy launched four missile strikes, 29 airstrikes and 49 attacks using multiple rocket

launchers on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements. Late on January 16, Russian invaders attacked the central part of Kharkiv with missiles. Unfortunately, Russian terrorist attacks have resulted in civilian injuries. A hospital, private houses and apartment buildings, and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
Airstrikes were recorded in Vovchansk, Kharkiv region; Orlivka, Avdiivka, Kostiantynivka, Novomykhailivka and Vodiane, Donetsk region; Mala Tokmachka, Preobrazhenka and Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region.
More than 120 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions came under artillery fire.

The occupiers launched another aerial attack on Ukraine overnight, using 20 Shahed-136/131 strike drones, with Ukrainian air defense forces shooting down 19 targets." Ukrin