Authorities later reported that the young man was injured by falling debris.
Ukraine said it had shot down all 39 Russian-launched drones in a third straight night of airstrikes against civilian targets in kyiv and other cities.
Ukrainian officials said their success demonstrated that Russia’s tactic of recent months of launching airstrikes to bring down Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was increasingly failing as kyiv beefs up its air defenses.
Power operator Ukrenergo reported that the power supply situation in kyiv was now “more complicated.”
“That’s why now there are power cuts,” he said on social media.
The Russian New Year attacks hit central areas of large cities, said Mikhailo Podoliak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called it a shift in Moscow’s strategy.
“Russia no longer has military targets and tries to kill as many civilians as possible and destroy civilian facilities,” he tweeted. “It’s a war to kill.”
On Saturday, December 31, Russian artillery hit a town on the outskirts of Kherson, where a 13-year-old boy was wounded.
Subsequently, Russian forces attacked the hospital where the minor was in intensive care.
“What does the 13-year-old boy have to do with these inhumans who tried to kill him twice?” Governor Yaroslav Yanushevych questioned on the Telegram application.
The Russian attack damaged Kherson’s hospital and left Kherson and the surrounding area without power.
In November, Russian forces withdrew from Kherson, the only regional capital they had ever controlled, but continued to shell it.
Ukrainian authorities reported that dozens were injured in the attacks that left five dead in several regions.
Police chief Andrii Nebitov posted on Facebook an image of the wreckage of a drone that read the words “Happy New Year” in Russian.
“This is all you need to know about the terrorist state and its military,” he wrote.
With information from AFP and Reuters