War in Ukraine: Russian strikes kill 15, energy infrastructure targeted, two Russian civilians killed… update on the situation

Rescuers stand in a building damaged by a Russian drone strike, in Vyshneve, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine, January 25, 2025. MAXPPP – TARASOV/Avalon

Russia launched salvos of drones and missiles against Ukraine on Saturday, February 1, 2025, killing 15 people and damaging dozens of residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, authorities said.

A Russian missile struck a residential building in Poltava, central Ukraine, killing 11 people and injuring 16 others, including four children, on Saturday, February 1, 2025, according to Ukrainian emergency services.

Twenty-two people were pulled from the rubble. Reuters TV footage showed thick columns of smoke rising above the rubble in front of the building.

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Ukrainian casualties

In Khariv, northeastern Ukraine, one person was killed and four others wounded in a drone strike, the mayor said. Three police officers were also killed in the attacks while patrolling the streets of a village in the northeastern region of Sumy, officials said.

Kyiv and Moscow later accused each other of bombing a boarding school in the Ukrainian-held Kursk region of western Russia. The Ukrainian military said four people were killed in the attack.

Two Russian civilians killed

Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, was the target of multiple Ukrainian drone attacks on Sunday, February 2, 2025, and two civilians were killed, the region's governor said. A man was killed in the village of Malinovka, about 8 km east of the border, Vyacheslav Gladkov said on the Telegram messaging app.

Several other localities were attacked by Ukraine on Sunday morning. Later in the day, a car was attacked by a drone, killing a woman who died in hospital and wounding another civilian, the governor added.

The Russian Defense Ministry said it had destroyed 44 Ukrainian drones in the past 24 hours. Ukraine did not immediately comment. Both sides deny targeting civilians.