🔗 Share this article Major Moscow's Strikes Cut Electricity Across Kyiv Ukraine's power facilities have faced increased strikes in the past few days During the night, Russian missile and drone strikes have resulted in electricity outages in extensive areas of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. Several individuals were hurt while local people in the city's east were left without electricity and faced interruptions to water systems, according to city officials. Simultaneously, a minor was fatally injured in a different assault in the Zaporizhzhia region in the southern area, as reported by local officials. Moscow has escalated assaults on power infrastructure over the last fortnight, while officials has requested "substantial measures" from allies to increase pressure on Moscow. "What is required is not symbolic gestures but firm measures - from the United States, the EU and the major economies - in delivering defensive weapons and applying sanctions," he wrote in a social media post. Authorities reported that hundreds of unmanned aircraft and over thirty missiles attacked energy facilities, characterizing such assaults as "strategic and deliberate" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as the weather cools. The energy minister said Russia was "inflicting a massive strike" and repair crews were laboring to restore power. A series of attacks struck energy infrastructure and residential structures in Kyiv. Multiple people hurt in the assaults on the capital have been hospitalized, per statements from local officials. Russian missiles hit residential structures in the capital overnight Local officials said the city came under intense attacks throughout the evening. A seven-year-old child lost their life and multiple civilians were wounded. The assaults follow evenings of air raids in the area, parts of which remain under the control of Russian forces. All of Ukraine is under warning for sophisticated projectile assaults, which are harder to spot. National leaders told reporters that Russia was intentionally trying to damage the country's energy grid, with attacks already affecting gas facilities. Authorities confirmed technical personnel and government agencies were anticipating more assaults.