Overnight, Russian missile and drone strikes have resulted in blackouts in extensive areas of Ukraine's capital, the Ukrainian capital.
Nine people were hurt while inhabitants in eastern neighborhoods were plunged into darkness and faced disruption to water supplies, according to city officials.
Meanwhile, a young boy was killed in a different Russian drone strike in the southeastern region in the country's south-east, according to regional authorities.
Russian forces has intensified strikes on electrical systems over recent weeks, while Ukrainian leadership has demanded "substantial measures" from partner nations to apply pressure on Russia.
"What is required is not superficial actions but firm measures - from the America, the EU and the Group of Seven - in providing air defence systems and enforcing restrictions," was stated in a social media post.
He said that 450 drones and over thirty rockets attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure, labeling such attacks as "strategic and deliberate" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as the weather cools.
Government representatives said Russia was "inflicting a massive strike" and repair crews were working to repair systems.
A wave of strikes struck power facilities and residential structures in the capital.
Several of the people wounded in the attacks on the capital have been hospitalized, per statements from municipal representatives.
Local officials said the urban area came under significant strikes throughout the evening. A young boy died and multiple civilians were hurt.
The strikes come after nights of aerial attacks in the territory, sections of which are occupied by Moscow's military.
The whole nation is in a state of readiness for sophisticated projectile assaults, which are tougher to detect.
Authorities told reporters that Moscow was intentionally trying to demolish the national power system, with strikes already impacting fuel infrastructure.
Authorities confirmed technical personnel and government agencies were preparing for further attacks.
