OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Artem Zub and Jordan Spence’s first-period goals, scored 15 seconds apart, were enough to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 2-1 win over the struggling Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.
Leevi Merilainen had a solid outing making 18 saves for the Senators, who snapped a four-game losing streak.
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Vancouver Canucks center, Aatu Raty (54) tries to tip the puck past Ottawa Senators goaltender Leevi Merilainen (1) as he is pressured by defenseman Jordan Spence (10) during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) poke checks the puck away from Ottawa Senators center Tim Stutzle (18) as he is pressured by Canucks right wing Conor Garland (8) during second period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vancouver Canucks left wing Evander Kane (91) shoots the puck wide of the net past Ottawa Senators goaltender Leevi Merilainen (1) during second period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators left wing Brady Tkachuk (7) shoots on Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vancouver Canucks centre Elias Pettersson (40) collides with Ottawa Senators defenseman Nick Jensen (3) along the boards during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vancouver has now lost eight straight (0-6-2) and is in the midst of its longest road trip of the season, a six-game stretch that wraps up Thursday in Columbus. They’re currently 0-5.
Elias Pettersson scored goal for the Canucks, while Kevin Lankinen stopped 38 shots.
Trailing 2-0 the Canucks were able to cut the lead in half off an ugly Dylan Cozens giveaway. Linus Karlsson intercepted Cozens’ pass attempt and fed Pettersson in the slot for his 13th of the season.
Ottawa looked to extend its 2-0 lead in the second, but Lankinen made a number of impressive stops, including two on the goal-line robbing Brady Tkachuk and Cozens.
The Senators came out firing outshooting the Canucks 11-1 late in the period and were rewarded when Shane Pinto sent a pass to Zub and he stepped into the circle and beat Lankinen short side to take a 1-0 lead.
Just 15 seconds later off a faceoff win, Drake Batherson sent a pass over to Spence who ripped a shot far side to make it 2-0. It was Ottawa’s fastest two goals since Dec. 21, 2023, when Josh Norris and Ridly Greig also had goals 15 seconds apart.
Canucks: At Columbus on Thursday in the last of a six-game trip.
Senators: At New York Rangers on Wednesday.
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Vancouver Canucks center, Aatu Raty (54) tries to tip the puck past Ottawa Senators goaltender Leevi Merilainen (1) as he is pressured by defenseman Jordan Spence (10) during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) poke checks the puck away from Ottawa Senators center Tim Stutzle (18) as he is pressured by Canucks right wing Conor Garland (8) during second period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vancouver Canucks left wing Evander Kane (91) shoots the puck wide of the net past Ottawa Senators goaltender Leevi Merilainen (1) during second period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ottawa Senators left wing Brady Tkachuk (7) shoots on Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen (32) during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
Vancouver Canucks centre Elias Pettersson (40) collides with Ottawa Senators defenseman Nick Jensen (3) along the boards during first period NHL action in Ottawa, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid amid freezing temperatures in an apparent snub to U.S.-led peace efforts as Moscow's invasion of its neighbor approaches the four-year mark.
Russia fired almost 300 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles at eight regions overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media.
One strike in the northeastern Kharkiv region killed four people at a mail depot, and several hundred thousand households were without power in the Kyiv region, Zelenskyy said.
The daytime temperature in Kyiv, which has endured freezing temperatures for more than two weeks, was minus 12 degrees C (about 10 degrees F), with streets covered in ice and the rumble of generators heard throughout the capital.
Kyiv has grappled with severe power shortages for days, although Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday night's strikes caused the biggest electrical outage the city has faced so far.
More than 500 residential buildings remained without central heating Tuesday. Throughout the city, bare trees were weighed down with icicles and snow was piled up next to sidewalks.
Olena Davydova, 30, charged her phone at what is called a ”Point of Invincibility" shelter in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district. The government-built temporary installations, often large tents on the sidewalk, provide food, drinks, warmth and electricity.
Davydova said she had been without power for nearly 50 hours. That forced her to adopt some new routines: sleeping in one bed with her child and two cats, storing fresh food on the balcony, and using candles after dark.
She says she is taking the changes in stride. “I still have enough patience. I’m not reacting to this in a very emotional way,” she told The Associated Press.
Elsewhere, friends and relatives gathered in apartments still with power or hot water, at least temporarily, to charge their phones, take showers, or share a warm drink.
Klitschko ordered the city to provide one hot meal per day to needy residents. He also announced that workers in the city’s water, heating and road maintenance services would receive bonuses for working “day and night” to restore critical infrastructure.
Four days earlier, Russia also sent hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack and, for only the second time in the war, it used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in what appeared to be a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies that it won’t back down.
On Monday, the U.S. accused Russia of a “ dangerous and inexplicable escalation ” of the fighting at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance peace negotiations.
Tammy Bruce, the U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations, told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that Washington deplores “the staggering number of casualties” in the conflict and condemns Russia’s intensifying attacks on energy and other infrastructure.
Russia has sought to deny Ukrainian civilians heat and running water over the course of the war, hoping to wear down public resistance to Moscow’s full-scale invasion, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. Ukrainian officials describe the strategy as “weaponizing winter.”
The attack in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region also wounded 10 people, local authorities said.
In the southern city of Odesa, six people were wounded in the attack, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the regional military administration. The strikes damaged energy infrastructure, a hospital, a kindergarten, an educational facility and a number of residential buildings, he said.
Last year was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022 as Russia intensified its aerial barrages behind the front line, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country.
The war killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 in Ukraine — 31% higher than in 2024, it said.
“The sharp increase in long-range attacks and the targeting of Ukraine’s national energy infrastructure mean that the consequences of the war are now felt by civilians far beyond the front line,” Danielle Bell, the agency’s head, said in a statement Monday.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine is counting on quicker deliveries of agreed upon air defense systems from the U.S. and Europe, as well as new pledges of aid to counter Russia’s latest onslaught.
Meanwhile, Russian air defenses shot down 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Defese Ministry said Tuesday. Seven were reportedly destroyed over Russia’s Rostov region, where Gov. Yuri Slyusar confirmed an attack on the coastal city of Taganrog, about 40 kilometers (about 24 miles) east of the Ukrainian border, in Kyiv's latest long-range attack on Russian war-related facilities.
Ukraine’s military said its drones hit a drone manufacturing facility in Taganrog. The Atlant Aero plant designs, manufactures and tests Molniya drones and components for Orion unmanned aerial vehicles, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Explosions and a fire were reported at the site, with damage to production buildings confirmed, the General Staff said.
It wasn't possible to independently verify the reports.
Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, and Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv contributed.
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
A man gets warm at emergency tents where people can warm up following Russia's regular air attacks against the country's energy objects, that leave residents without power, water and heating in the dead of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
People get warm and charge their batteries in a tent set up by the emergency service following Russia's regular air attacks against the country's energy objects, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Danyil Bashakov)
A man smokes outside of an emergency tent where people can warm up following Russia's regular air attacks against the country's energy objects, that leave residents without power, water and heating in the dead of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Danyil Bashakov)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
