Intensive Russian Attacks Cut Electricity Across Kyiv
Overnight, Russian missile and drone strikes have led to electricity outages in multiple districts of the capital city, the Ukrainian capital.
Nine people were injured while inhabitants in the city's east were experienced blackouts and encountered disruption to water supplies, per reports from municipal leaders.
Simultaneously, a young boy was fatally injured in a different assault in the southeastern region in the country's south-east, according to area administrators.
Moscow has intensified attacks on power infrastructure over the past few days, while officials has requested "concrete actions" from international partners to increase pressure on Moscow.
"The necessity is not symbolic gestures but decisive action - from the US, the EU and the major economies - in delivering protection systems and applying restrictions," was stated in a public message.
He said that numerous aerial vehicles and several dozen projectiles struck energy facilities, characterizing such attacks as "cynical and calculated" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as temperatures become colder.
Government representatives said Russia was "launching a major assault" and technical staff were striving to fix the damage.
A barrage of missiles struck power facilities and residential structures in the capital.
Five out of the nine people injured in the attacks on the city have been transported for medical care, according to local officials.
Regional authorities said the city came under intense attacks overnight. A young boy was killed and multiple civilians were wounded.
The assaults follow nights of bombing campaigns in the area, sections of which are currently controlled by Russian forces.
The entire country is in a state of readiness for sophisticated projectile assaults, which are tougher to identify.
National leaders told the media that Russia was deliberately attempting to destroy the country's energy grid, with attacks already affecting energy systems.
Authorities confirmed energy workers and government agencies were anticipating more assaults.
