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Overnight, Russian aerial assaults have led to power cuts in extensive areas of Ukraine's capital, the Ukrainian capital.

Several individuals were hurt while residents in the city's east were left without electricity and faced interruptions to drinking water, per reports from city officials.

At the same time, a seven-year-old child was fatally injured in a different aerial attack in the southeastern region in the southeastern part, according to area administrators.

Moscow has escalated assaults on electrical systems over the past few days, while officials has called for "real steps" from allies to increase pressure on Russia.

"What is required is not superficial actions but firm measures - from the United States, European nations and the G7 - in delivering defensive weapons and applying restrictions," mentioned in a public message.

Authorities reported that hundreds of unmanned aircraft and over thirty missiles targeted energy facilities, characterizing such attacks as "strategic and deliberate" and against "essential services" as temperatures become colder.

The energy minister said Moscow was "inflicting a massive strike" and repair crews were striving to fix the damage.

A wave of strikes struck electrical systems and civilian homes in the capital.

Multiple people injured in the assaults on the capital have been transported for medical care, per statements from local officials.

Local officials said the metropolitan region came under significant strikes overnight. A minor died and three other people were injured.

The attacks come after nights of air raids in the region, portions of which remain under the control of Moscow's military.

The whole nation is under warning for hypersonic Kinzhal missile strikes, which are harder to spot.

Authorities told reporters that Russia was deliberately attempting to damage the electrical infrastructure, with assaults already disrupting energy systems.

Officials stated technical personnel and authorities were bracing for more assaults.