One of Ukraine's key power plants has been badly damaged by a missile strike, officials have confirmed.
The station in Kyiv was targeted following a Russian air campaign which attempted to cut the water and electricity in popular parts of the country.
Luckily, nobody was injured or killed in the strike, Kyiv's region governor Olesky Kuleba confirmed.
Households were told to flee the area after a warning from Kyrylo Tymoshenko and neighbouring regions were told to reduce the amount of energy they were using during peak hours, The Independent confirmed.
It comes as Vladimir Putin and Russia target Ukraine's energy infrastructure in its main cities with their biggest wave of air strikes this week.
Attacks started as a retaliation to the bombing of a key supply line in Russia as well as residential buildings and other civilian targets from the front line of the war.
Yesterday, Putin said there wasn't a need for any more strikes but threatened his military wouldn't hesitate with any more selective strikes.
He admitted the country had 29 targets they were hoping to hit with a raid of missile attacks and only seven weren't damaged and would be gradually targeted again.
A military analyst group in Washington - The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) - said Putin’s remarks were intended to counter criticism from pro-war Russian bloggers who praised the resumption of strikes against Ukrainian cities but warned a short campaign would be "ineffective.”
The ISW explained: “Putin knew he would not be able to sustain high-intensity missiles strikes for a long time due to a dwindling arsenal of high-precision missiles."
It's thought the latest bombing campaign had diverted Russia’s small stockpile of missiles away from the front-lines in Ukraine ’s south and east where Moscow’s forces are defending from a strong counter offensive.
Kherson, a mostly Russian-occupied southern region that Putin illegally claimed for Moscow last month was at the heart of the fighting on Saturday.
Deputy head of the Russian administration in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, claimed Ukrainian troops made no successful advances.
In the neighbouring Zaporizhzhia region, governor Oleksandr Starukh said the Russian military carried out strikes with Iranian-made kamikaze drones and S-300 missiles.
