Throughout the evening, Moscow's missile and drone strikes have led to electricity outages in large parts of the capital city, the Ukrainian capital.
Several individuals were wounded while inhabitants in the city's east were plunged into darkness and faced problems to drinking water, according to municipal leaders.
Simultaneously, a seven-year-old child was lost their life in a different Russian drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia area in the country's south-east, according to local officials.
Russian forces has escalated strikes on electrical systems over the past few days, while the country's government has requested "substantial measures" from partner nations to apply pressure on Moscow.
"The necessity is not symbolic gestures but decisive action - from the America, Europe and the Group of Seven - in providing defensive weapons and enforcing sanctions," he wrote in a public message.
Authorities reported that numerous aerial vehicles and several dozen projectiles attacked energy facilities, characterizing such attacks as "cynical and calculated" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as temperatures become colder.
The energy minister said Russia was "launching a major assault" and repair crews were working to fix the damage.
A wave of strikes struck power facilities and residential structures in the capital.
Multiple people wounded in the strikes on the capital have been hospitalized, according to city authorities.
Area administrators said the urban area came under heavy assaults throughout the evening. A young boy died and three other people were hurt.
The attacks follow evenings of air raids in the region, parts of which are occupied by Russian forces.
The whole nation is in a state of readiness for hypersonic Kinzhal missile strikes, which are tougher to identify.
Government officials told journalists that Moscow was intentionally trying to demolish the country's energy grid, with strikes already affecting energy systems.
He said utility staff and government agencies were preparing for more assaults.
