During the night, Russians launched 176 drones over Ukraine, resulting in casualties and injuries among civilians.

As a result of shelling by Russian military forces on the night of February 18, there are wounded and deceased civilians in the Kirovohrad and Zaporizhzhia regions.

This was reported by the local military administration.

During the night, the Russian army launched a total of 176 strike drones, more than a hundred of which were shot down by air defense forces, reports the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The operation of air defense was heard in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions.

In the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russians hit Orikhiv. As a result, an 80-year-old civilian died, whose body was found under the rubble of a residential building.

In the Kirovohrad region, a Russian drone struck a residential high-rise in the city of Dolynska. A fire broke out in the building, and three civilians were injured. The victims included a mother and her two children, who received medical assistance on-site.

Additionally, in Kyiv, debris from a downed drone fell onto the premises of an enterprise in the Sviatoshyn district. A fire ignited there, but no information regarding injuries or fatalities has been reported.

As a reminder, the day before, the Russians shelled rescuers who were delivering water to civilians in the Donetsk region.