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Major Russian Strikes Eliminate Electricity In Ukraine's Capital

Power facilities targeted in Ukraine
Ukraine's energy systems have faced escalating strikes in the past few days

Throughout the evening, Moscow's aerial assaults have resulted in blackouts in multiple districts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.

Nine people were hurt while inhabitants in the city's east were experienced blackouts and faced problems to drinking water, per reports from local authorities.

Meanwhile, a minor was fatally injured in a different aerial attack in the Zaporizhzhia area in the southeastern part, according to area administrators.

Moscow has escalated assaults on power infrastructure over the past few days, while officials has requested "real steps" from international partners to apply pressure on Russia.

"What is required is not symbolic gestures but decisive action - from the US, Europe and the G7 - in providing defensive weapons and applying sanctions," was stated in a social media post.

He said that 450 drones and over thirty projectiles targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, characterizing such assaults as "cynical and calculated" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as temperatures become colder.

Energy officials said Moscow was "inflicting a massive strike" and repair crews were working to restore power.

A barrage of missiles hit energy infrastructure and apartment buildings in Kyiv.

Multiple people wounded in the attacks on the capital have been taken to hospital, according to local officials.

Rescue operations in the capital
Russian missiles damaged civilian homes in the capital during the night

Local officials said the metropolitan region came under significant strikes overnight. A minor lost their life and multiple civilians were hurt.

The attacks follow evenings of bombing campaigns in the territory, sections of which are occupied by Moscow's military.

The entire country is on alert for hypersonic Kinzhal missile strikes, which are harder to spot.

Authorities told journalists that Russia was deliberately attempting to demolish the national power system, with strikes already affecting energy systems.

Officials stated utility staff and government agencies were anticipating more assaults.

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