Russia launched a “massive” overnight attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities and followed up the onslaught with a bombing in Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon that left at least three people dead and nearly 40 injured.

The overnight bombardment of Ukraine’s energy facilities marked the eighth time Russia has targeted the country’s energy infrastructure in the last three months, the BBC reported, citing Ukraine’s energy ministry.

Ukraine’s air defense system reportedly shot down 12 of the 16 missiles and all 13 Iran-made Shahed drones.

The attacks wounded two energy workers in the Zaporizhzhya region, and damaged equipment in Lviv.

Officials in Ivano-Frankivsk, in the southwest, also reported damage to homes and a kindergarten, the BBC noted.

Russia’s renewed campaign against Ukrainian energy has resulted in frequent blackouts across the embattled nation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently claimed that Moscow destroyed half of the country’s electricity-generating capacity since late March.

Russia also launched four aerial bombs that damaged residential buildings, stores, and public transport stops in Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon, Zelensky confirmed. 

At least three people were killed in the attack, Zelensky said.

Another 38 residents were injured, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.

At least 16 of the victims – including two children – had to be hospitalized. 

Four of the wounded were in serious condition.

“This Russian terror with guided aerial bombs must and can be stopped. Bold decisions from our partners are needed so that we can destroy Russian terrorists and Russian combat aircraft where they are,” Zelensky wrote of the incident.

Also on Saturday, the governor of the partly-occupied region of Donetsk said that Russian attacks on the area killed five people and wounded seven the day before.

The Moscow-appointed governor of the Russian-controlled part of the region said that three people died and four were injured by Ukrainian shells Saturday morning.

The Kyiv Independent claimed Saturday that 533,090 Russian troops have been killed since it launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

Zelensky has said Ukraine has lost 31,000 troops so far.

Critics have accused President Joe Biden of limiting Kyiv’s ability to adequately defend itself over fears of “escalating tensions” with Moscow.

Last month, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced that the US was relaxing its restrictions on Ukraine’s use of weapons on Kremlin territory.

“This is not about geography; it’s about common sense,” Sullivan said this week. “If Russia is attacking or about to attack from its territory into Ukraine, it only makes sense to allow Ukraine to hit back against the forces that are hitting it from across the border.”

But Dalibor Rohac, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told The Post the change was “just another iteration of this never-ending sort of eternal bargaining in the administration where we never set red lines for Putin.

“We only set red lines for ourselves, and then we gradually relax those red lines,” Rohac said. “It’s a terrible way of doing policy.”

With Post wires