After an overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Friday struck energy facilities, plunging large districts of Kyiv and other areas into darkness and cutting water supplies emergency crews restored power to many parts of Ukraine.
The latest mass attack targeting the energy system as winter approaches, electricity were interrupted in nine regions and over a million households and businesses were temporarily without power across the country.
A seven-year-old was killed when his home was hit and at least 20 people were injured in southeastern Ukraine. In Kyiv, an apartment block in the city centre was damaged by a projectile, the left bank of the Dnipro that divides the capital, crowds waited at bus stops with the metro out of action.
Ukraine's energy ministry said more than 800,000 customers had suffered power cuts in Kyiv. The private power company DTEK said electricity had been restored to most of Kyiv residents, but local problems remained by Saturday morning. Power had also been restored in areas outside the capital and in Dnipropetrovsk region in the southeast.
Friday throughout authorities reported that Russian attacks in different parts of the country. An official in the northern Chernihiv region said one person have killed when a car belonging to the local energy utility was hit by a drone.
Energy Minister of Ukraine met G7 ambassadors and representatives of some of Ukraine's biggest energy companies to discuss how allies could help protect the country against further attacks and repair the damage.
Ukraine's air force said they had downed 405 of 465 drones and 15 of 32 missiles in this attack. Ukraine's stretched air defences are not match for regular barrages on such scale of attack.
According to Zelenskiy, Russia waited for bad weather to attack and the inclement conditions reduced the efficiency of Ukraine's air defense. Russia said the overnight strikes were in response to Ukraine's attacks on Russian civilian facilities.
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