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Major Moscow's Assaults Cut Electricity Across Kyiv

Power facilities targeted in Ukraine
Ukraine's energy systems have come under escalating strikes in recent weeks

Overnight, Moscow's missile and drone strikes have led to blackouts in extensive areas of the capital city, the Ukrainian capital.

Nine people were hurt while inhabitants in eastern neighborhoods were experienced blackouts and encountered problems to water supplies, according to local authorities.

Simultaneously, a young boy was fatally injured in a distinct assault in the southeastern region in the country's south-east, based on information from local officials.

Moscow has escalated assaults on power infrastructure over the last fortnight, while officials has called for "concrete actions" from partner nations to exert influence on Russia.

"The necessity is not symbolic gestures but decisive action - from the US, European nations and the major economies - in supplying protection systems and applying sanctions," was stated in a online statement.

He said that 450 drones and more than 30 projectiles attacked energy facilities, characterizing such assaults as "strategic and deliberate" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as temperatures become colder.

Government representatives said Moscow was "conducting extensive attacks" and maintenance teams were laboring to repair systems.

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

Several of the people hurt in the assaults on the capital have been transported for medical care, per statements from local officials.

Rescue operations in Kyiv
Russian missiles hit residential structures in the capital throughout the evening

Local officials said the city experienced heavy assaults during nighttime hours. A young boy died and several individuals were wounded.

The attacks come after periods of bombing campaigns in the territory, parts of which remain under the control of Russian forces.

The whole nation is under warning for advanced weapon attacks, which are tougher to detect.

Government officials told the media that Moscow was purposely seeking to destroy the electrical infrastructure, with strikes already affecting energy systems.

He said technical personnel and officials were preparing for additional strikes.

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