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Overnight, Russian aerial assaults have resulted in blackouts in multiple districts of the capital city, Kyiv.

Several individuals were hurt while local people in the city's east were left without electricity and encountered interruptions to water supplies, per reports from city officials.

Meanwhile, a minor was fatally injured in a different Russian drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia region in the country's south-east, according to local officials.

Moscow has intensified attacks on energy facilities over recent weeks, while officials has demanded "substantial measures" from partner nations to exert influence on Moscow.

"The necessity is not window dressing but firm measures - from the US, Europe and the major economies - in delivering defensive weapons and implementing sanctions," he wrote in a public message.

He said that numerous aerial vehicles and over thirty missiles struck energy facilities, describing such attacks as "cynical and calculated" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as temperatures become colder.

The energy minister said Russia was "inflicting a massive strike" and technical staff were striving to fix the damage.

A series of attacks struck energy infrastructure and civilian homes in Kyiv.

Five out of the nine people wounded in the assaults on the capital have been taken to hospital, according to local officials.

Area administrators said the urban area experienced heavy assaults during nighttime hours. A seven-year-old child lost their life and multiple civilians were wounded.

The attacks follow evenings of aerial attacks in the territory, portions of which are occupied by Moscow's military.

All of Ukraine is on alert for sophisticated projectile assaults, which are tougher to detect.

Authorities told journalists that Russia was purposely seeking to demolish the country's energy grid, with attacks already disrupting fuel infrastructure.

Officials stated technical personnel and government agencies were bracing for additional strikes.