Overnight Russian drone and ballistic missile strikes damaged Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, causing blackouts and disrupting water supplies just as temperatures fall and the first winter snow arrives.

Zelenskyy said twelve regions came under attack, with the capital Kyiv hit hardest. Officials reported nine people wounded nationwide, including one child. The wave involved more than thirty ballistic missiles and over one hundred and seventy drones.

In Kyiv, residential buildings, the North Bridge and a kindergarten were damaged. Strikes hit substations that connect the Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear plants to the capital and central Ukraine. Substations were also damaged in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Kharkiv and Dnipro regions. Kyiv's mayor later said the city water system was back to normal and that about sixty percent of apartment buildings were again connected to heating. The energy minister reported power cuts in five regions.

The assault comes before Ukrainian and Russian delegations are due to take part in trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi next week. Zelenskyy wrote that Moscow was preparing for those talks by striking critical infrastructure.

The latest attacks follow a White House meeting on Thursday in which Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian officials and called for a more enduring ceasefire after a short truce in the southern Kherson region. Hundreds of residents of occupied Oleshky were able to leave during that six day pause.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine was counting on bipartisan American unity on security support, condemnation of Russian aggression and tougher sanctions on Vladimir Putin. He argued that consistent US backing remains vital if peace is to move closer.