Firefighters put out a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv, on Friday. For many Kyiv residents, the day started with power cuts, disruptions in the water supply and transport delays.

Large parts of Kyiv were plunged into darkness in the early hours of Friday after Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian energy facilities, cutting power and water to homes and halting a key metro link across the Dnipro river.

In the latest mass attack targeting the energy system as winter approaches, electricity was interrupted in nine regions and around 600,000 households were temporarily without power across the country.

A seven-year-old was killed when his home was hit in the southeast and at least 20 people were injured.

An apartment block in the centre of Kyiv was damaged by a projectile, w

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