Russian strikes kill at least one in Ukraine as Odesa attack cuts heating and power to 160,000

# Russian strikes kill at least one in Ukraine as Odesa attack cuts heating and power to 160,000

*Event date: 2025-02-19*

Russia launched another overnight barrage of drones and ballistic missiles across Ukraine, leaving at least one civilian dead and at least 14 people injured, including two children, according to The Kyiv Independent. The report said the Air Force tracked 167 Shahed-type drones and decoy drones along with two Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles fired at Sumy Oblast.

The scale of the attack was large even by the standards of the war. As of 9 a.m. local time, Ukrainian air defenses had shot down 106 drones over 14 oblasts, while 56 more were lost without causing damage, the report said. That left a still-substantial number of projectiles that reached their intended areas or created enough disruption to be counted as part of the assault.

The worst damage described in the packet came in Odesa and the surrounding region. A major drone strike on energy infrastructure injured four people, including a child, and left about 160,000 residents without heating and electricity. The attack also damaged a kindergarten, a children’s clinic and residential buildings, turning a single night’s strike into a wider civil-infrastructure emergency.

The missile strike on Sumy did not produce casualties, but it still damaged the windows of a non-residential building, underscoring how the attack was spread across multiple regions rather than concentrated in one place. In Donetsk Oblast, the report said one person was killed and two injured in Kostiantynivka, while another civilian was injured in Pokrovsk.

Kherson Oblast also took a hit. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said seven people, including a child, were injured there and that three apartment buildings and eight houses were damaged. Taken together, the incidents show how Russia’s aerial campaign continues to push civilian casualties, utility outages and structural damage into different corners of the country at the same time.

The report also fits a broader pattern the outlet has documented repeatedly: persistent Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, with air-defense efforts intercepting many projectiles but not enough to prevent harm on the ground. The result, in this case, was a casualty list spread across several oblasts and a major heating and electricity disruption in one of the country’s key southern cities.

The report makes clear that the damage was not limited to one city: air defenses worked across the map, but the strikes still produced casualties, utility outages and repair work in several regions at once.