Russia pressed on with its weeks-long missile and drone barrage on Kyiv and areas around the Ukrainian capital, killing four people, including a child, while targeting energy infrastructure and a key internet exchange point, officials said Wednesday.

The sharp escalation in Moscow’s aerial campaign since the end of August is putting further pressure on Ukraine as it prepares for winter, when Russia has regularly targeted energy facilities, disrupting heating and water supplies.

Ukrainian officials say Moscow is not engaging with US efforts to halt the fighting, more than four years after Russia invaded Ukraine. Moscow says it wants a comprehensive settlement rather than a temporary truce, while Kyiv rejects Russia’s demand that it surrender territory.

A child was killed and three other people were rescued from the rubble of a private home in Vyshhorod in the wider Kyiv region, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration, said.

The attacks killed three people in the capital and wounded at least four others, while another person was killed near the city, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Russia has exploited gaps in Ukraine’s air defences by using ballistic missiles and new jet-powered drones, which are difficult to intercept. Repeated air raid alerts have disrupted daily life and affected economic activity as people seek shelter from the attacks.

The main Russian targets were energy facilities in Kyiv and the surrounding region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media, describing the assault as “a difficult attack” as Moscow puts further pressure on Ukraine’s air defences.

Zelenskyy thanked foreign countries supporting Ukraine for recent deliveries of air defence equipment.

“And the closer we get to winter, the more of this protection we need,” he said. “We must do everything to ensure that Russia’s bet on ballistic missile and drone terror does not pay off.”

Russia fired 2,850 jet-propelled drones at Ukraine in August, but by Tuesday it had already launched 3,177 this month, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said.

The attacks have come in waves, mostly targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ihnat told Ukrainian television late Tuesday. Ukraine needs more missiles for US-made Patriot air defence systems to counter ballistic missiles, as well as additional ground-based air defence systems, he said.

The Russian Defence Ministry said its overnight attack struck a hydroelectric power plant, a thermal power plant, an electrical substation, an energy storage facility and a data centre.

Ukrainian officials did not confirm those strikes. Authorities reported hits on civilian areas in at least four Kyiv districts.