Overnight, Moscow's missile and drone strikes have resulted in electricity outages in large parts of the capital city, the Ukrainian capital.
Nine people were injured while local people in eastern neighborhoods were plunged into darkness and dealt with interruptions to water systems, per reports from municipal leaders.
Meanwhile, a seven-year-old child was killed in a separate assault in the Zaporizhzhia region in the southern area, as reported by local officials.
Moscow has intensified strikes on electrical systems over the last fortnight, while Ukrainian leadership has demanded "concrete actions" from international partners to increase pressure on Moscow.
"What is required is not window dressing but decisive action - from the United States, the EU and the G7 - in supplying air defence systems and implementing sanctions," he wrote in a online statement.
Officials stated that 450 drones and over thirty missiles targeted energy facilities, characterizing such attacks as "strategic and deliberate" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as temperatures become colder.
The energy minister said Moscow was "launching a major assault" and maintenance teams were working to restore power.
A wave of strikes struck power facilities and apartment buildings in Kyiv.
Five out of the nine people injured in the assaults on the city have been hospitalized, according to city authorities.
Local officials said the urban area endured significant strikes overnight. A minor was killed and three other people were wounded.
The strikes come after nights of air raids in the region, sections of which are occupied by Russian forces.
The whole nation is in a state of readiness for advanced weapon attacks, which are tougher to spot.
Government officials told reporters that Russia was intentionally trying to demolish the national power system, with strikes already disrupting energy systems.
He said energy workers and government agencies were bracing for additional strikes.
