A seven-year-old child was killed and three people were wounded in Russian attacks in the Zaporizhia region in central Ukraine overnight, while nine people were injured in Kiev, Ukrainian authorities said, Beta news agency reported.
Kiev was the target of a major Russian attack last night, leaving the eastern part of the Ukrainian capital without electricity.
The Energy Ministry said that across the country, "Russians are carrying out massive attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure."
The Ukrainian Air Force reported on Telegram about "an attack by enemy ballistic missiles and a massive drone strike," urging the population to stay in shelters.
Reuters reports that officials said this morning's major Russian attack on central Kiev caused a fire in a skyscraper and hit energy facilities, leaving parts of the capital without power.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said nine people were injured, five of whom were taken to hospital. He said power outages and water cuts affected neighborhoods on the east bank of the Dnieper River, which runs through Kyiv.
Photos posted online showed apartments in flames as firefighters took up positions. Fragments of downed drones also fell in several parts of the city, according to Reuters.
Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk announced that Russian forces had hit energy facilities.
"Energy experts are taking all necessary measures to mitigate the negative consequences. As soon as security conditions allow, experts will begin assessing the extent of the attack and carrying out restoration work," Grinchuk wrote on Facebook.
Russian forces have refocused on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in recent weeks as winter approaches in a war that has lasted more than three and a half years. A massive missile and drone attack last week hit several major Ukrainian gas production facilities, causing significant damage.
Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kiev military administration, said that both drones and missiles were used in the attack on the capital, carried out shortly after midnight.
Tkachenko said firefighters managed to extinguish the fire caused by a drone, which engulfed apartments on the sixth and seventh floors of a skyscraper in the central Pechersk district.
In the southeastern city of Zaporizhia, drones hit multiple targets, injuring three people and causing at least one fire in a residential building, the regional governor said, as reported by Reuters.
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