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

Nine people were injured while residents in the city's east were plunged into darkness and encountered interruptions to water supplies, according to municipal leaders.

Simultaneously, a minor was fatally injured in a different Russian drone strike in the southeastern region in the southern area, as reported by area administrators.

Russian forces has escalated attacks on energy facilities over the past few days, while officials has requested "substantial measures" from allies to increase pressure on Moscow.

"The necessity is not superficial actions but decisive action - from the United States, Europe and the major economies - in supplying protection systems and applying sanctions," he wrote in a online statement.

Authorities reported that hundreds of unmanned aircraft and several dozen rockets attacked energy facilities, characterizing such strikes as "cynical and calculated" and against "essential services" as winter approaches.

Government representatives said Russia was "conducting extensive attacks" and repair crews were laboring to fix the damage.

A series of attacks damaged power facilities and residential structures in the capital.

Multiple people hurt in the attacks on the capital have been taken to hospital, according to local officials.

Regional authorities said the city came under heavy assaults overnight. A young boy was killed and multiple civilians were injured.

The attacks follow evenings of air raids in the region, portions of which are occupied by invading troops.

The whole nation is on alert for hypersonic Kinzhal missile strikes, which are harder to detect.

Authorities told journalists that Moscow was purposely seeking to demolish the country's energy grid, with assaults already affecting gas facilities.

He said technical personnel and government agencies were anticipating more assaults.