🔗 Share this article Intensive Moscow's Attacks Cut Electricity Across Kyiv Ukraine's power facilities have faced increased attacks in recent weeks During the night, Russian aerial assaults have resulted in electricity outages in extensive areas of the capital city, Kyiv. A number of civilians were wounded while residents in the city's east were plunged into darkness and faced disruption to water systems, per reports from local authorities. Meanwhile, a seven-year-old child was fatally injured in a distinct Russian drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia area in the country's south-east, according to area administrators. Moscow has intensified strikes on energy facilities over recent weeks, while Ukrainian leadership has demanded "substantial measures" from international partners to exert influence on Moscow. "The necessity is not symbolic gestures but firm measures - from the America, European nations and the Group of Seven - in supplying defensive weapons and enforcing restrictions," he wrote in a public message. Officials stated that numerous aerial vehicles and over thirty rockets attacked energy facilities, describing such assaults as "cynical and calculated" and against "critical infrastructure" as winter approaches. Energy officials said Moscow was "conducting extensive attacks" and repair crews were striving to fix the damage. A barrage of missiles damaged power facilities and civilian homes in the capital. Five out of the nine people wounded in the strikes on the capital have been hospitalized, per statements from municipal representatives. Russian missiles damaged residential structures in Kyiv overnight Local officials said the urban area endured intense attacks throughout the evening. A young boy died and three other people were injured. The attacks come after evenings of air raids in the territory, portions of which are occupied by Moscow's military. All of Ukraine is in a state of readiness for sophisticated projectile assaults, which are tougher to identify. Government officials told the media that Moscow was purposely seeking to destroy the national power system, with attacks already affecting fuel infrastructure. He said technical personnel and officials were anticipating additional strikes.