Russian strikes in Ukraine cause casualties, blackouts, and damage to energy infrastructure, escalating conflict in Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia.

A deadly Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia killed a 7-year-old boy and injured others after striking a recently occupied family home. Overnight, Russian missile and drone strikes targeted residential areas and energy infrastructure, causing widespread power outages across Kyiv and nine Ukrainian regions. Despite the attacks, many residents remain resilient. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on allies to provide air defense systems and enforce sanctions, while Ukraine’s military reported striking Russian territory 70 times last month, targeting energy facilities and reducing Russia’s oil refining capacity by about 20%.

Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Electric power supply was restored to more than a quarter of a million residents of Kyiv on Friday after massive Russian drone and missile attacks overnight targeted energy infrastructure across the country.

The process to restore external power to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has started, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on October 9.

Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv and damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swathes of Ukraine.

The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday the process had started to restore external power to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, cut off from the electricity grid for more than two weeks. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.