Overnight, Moscow's missile and drone strikes have resulted in electricity outages in multiple districts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
Nine people were wounded while local people in the city's east were left without electricity and faced problems to drinking water, as stated by municipal leaders.
At the same time, a young boy was lost their life in a different aerial attack in the Zaporizhzhia area in the southeastern part, as reported by area administrators.
Moscow has intensified assaults on energy facilities over recent weeks, while the country's government has requested "concrete actions" from partner nations to apply pressure on Russia.
"What is required is not window dressing but firm measures - from the United States, Europe and the Group of Seven - in providing air defence systems and applying restrictions," mentioned in a social media post.
He said that hundreds of unmanned aircraft and over thirty rockets struck energy facilities, labeling such assaults as "premeditated" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as winter approaches.
The energy minister said Russia was "conducting extensive attacks" and maintenance teams were laboring to repair systems.
A barrage of missiles hit power facilities and residential structures in Kyiv.
Five out of the nine people hurt in the strikes on the capital have been hospitalized, according to city authorities.
Local officials said the metropolitan region experienced significant strikes throughout the evening. A minor died and three other people were wounded.
The strikes come after nights of air raids in the area, parts of which remain under the control of Russian forces.
All of Ukraine is under warning for sophisticated projectile assaults, which are harder to spot.
National leaders told the media that Moscow was deliberately attempting to demolish the country's energy grid, with assaults already disrupting gas facilities.
He said technical personnel and authorities were bracing for additional strikes.
