During the night, Russian missile and drone strikes have resulted in power cuts in multiple districts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
Nine people were hurt while local people in eastern neighborhoods were experienced blackouts and encountered interruptions to water systems, as stated by municipal leaders.
Meanwhile, a seven-year-old child was killed in a separate assault in the Zaporizhzhia area in the southeastern part, based on information from regional authorities.
Russian forces has escalated attacks on electrical systems over recent weeks, while the country's government has called for "substantial measures" from allies to increase pressure on Moscow.
"What's needed is not superficial actions but strong steps - from the US, Europe and the major economies - in providing air defence systems and implementing penalties," was stated in a online statement.
He said that numerous aerial vehicles and more than 30 projectiles targeted energy facilities, characterizing such assaults as "strategic and deliberate" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as the weather cools.
The energy minister said Moscow was "inflicting a massive strike" and technical staff were laboring to restore power.
A wave of strikes struck power facilities and residential structures in the capital.
Several of the people wounded in the strikes on the capital have been hospitalized, according to city authorities.
Area administrators said the metropolitan region experienced heavy assaults throughout the evening. A young boy was killed and multiple civilians were hurt.
The strikes follow periods of bombing campaigns in the region, portions of which are occupied by invading troops.
The whole nation is on alert for sophisticated projectile assaults, which are harder to spot.
National leaders told reporters that Moscow was deliberately attempting to demolish the national power system, with strikes already disrupting fuel infrastructure.
He said technical personnel and officials were preparing for more assaults.
