Large-scale Moscow's Attacks Eliminate Power Across Ukraine's Capital
Throughout the evening, Moscow's missile and drone strikes have resulted in blackouts in extensive areas of the capital city, Kyiv.
Nine people were injured while local people in the city's east were plunged into darkness and encountered problems to water systems, according to city officials.
Meanwhile, a seven-year-old child was lost their life in a different Russian drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia area in the country's south-east, as reported by regional authorities.
Russian forces has escalated assaults on energy facilities over the past few days, while Ukrainian leadership has requested "substantial measures" from partner nations to exert influence on Moscow.
"What's needed is not window dressing but firm measures - from the US, Europe and the major economies - in delivering defensive weapons and enforcing restrictions," was stated in a social media post.
Officials stated that 450 drones and several dozen missiles targeted energy facilities, describing such strikes as "strategic and deliberate" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as temperatures become colder.
Government representatives said Moscow was "launching a major assault" and repair crews were laboring to restore power.
A barrage of missiles struck electrical systems and apartment buildings in Kyiv.
Five out of the nine people injured in the assaults on the capital have been hospitalized, as confirmed by city authorities.
Local officials said the urban area came under significant strikes during nighttime hours. A seven-year-old child was killed and several individuals were injured.
The strikes come after nights of bombing campaigns in the territory, parts of which remain under the control of Russian forces.
The entire country is on alert for hypersonic Kinzhal missile strikes, which are tougher to identify.
Authorities told journalists that Moscow was intentionally trying to destroy the electrical infrastructure, with strikes already disrupting gas facilities.
He said energy workers and government agencies were anticipating further attacks.
