The largest air attack on Russia has set fire to the Ukrainian government’s main building in kyiv and left three dead, including an infant, whose body was removed from the rubble, Ukrainian officials announced on Sunday.
“For the first time, the government’s building was damaged by an enemy strike – its roof and upper floors,” said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko on the Telegram messaging application.
“Rescuers turn off the fire.”
Reuters’ witnesses saw the top floor of the main building of the Ukrainian government, located in the historic district of Pecherskyi, burning, with thick smoke rising in light blue sky just after sunrise.
The Air Force of Ukraine said on Telegram that Russia had launched 805 drones in Ukraine overnight and 13 missiles, with Ukrainian defense units lowering 751 drones and four missiles.
It was the largest number of drones that Russia has used to attack the country since Moscow launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Timur Tkachenko, the head of the capital’s military administration, said that the infant’s body had been removed from the rubble in the Darnytskyi district where a four -story building was damaged.
A young woman also died from the attack on the district, which is east of the Dnipro river, said Tkachenko.
Emergency workers put out a fire in an apartment building that was damaged during a Russian drone strike, in the middle of the attack on Russia against Ukraine, in kyiv, Ukraine on September 7, 2025 Photo: Reuters
State emergency officials said 18 people were injured in the night attack that sowed fires throughout the city.
Moscow did not immediately comment on the attacks. The two parties denied to target civilians during strikes, but thousands of people died in the war that Russia was launched with a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Earlier, kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said that an elderly woman died in a Darnytskyi bombs shelter and a pregnant woman was part of the injured.
State emergency officials said that a fire had broken out in two of the four floors of a residential building in the district that struck the drone attack, its partially destroyed structure.
Drone debris
In the western district of Sviatoshynskyi, several floors of a nine -story residential building have been partially destroyed, Klitschko and emergency officials said.
The fall in drone debris sparked fires in a 16 -storey apartments building and two other nine -story buildings, added the mayor.
Svyrydenko called for more weapons for Ukraine and for the world to respond to Russian attacks.
“We are going to rebuild the buildings,” said Svyrydenko. “But the lost lives cannot be brought back. The enemy terrorizes and kills our people across the country every day.”
The thick smoke from a nearby strike site fills the sky during a Russian drone strike, in the middle of the attack on Russia against Ukraine, in kyiv, Ukraine on September 7, 2025. Photo: Reuters
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The smoke died from buildings, some with partially collapsed floors and collapsed, photographs on social networks published by emergency officials have shown.
Russia was “deliberately and consciously striking civilian targets,” said Tkachenko, the military administrator of kyiv, on Telegram.
Dozens of explosions have also shaken the central city of Kremenchuk of Ukraine, cutting power in certain areas and damaging a bridge through the Dnipro river, said the mayor of the city Vitalii Maletskyi on Telegram.
The Russian strikes on Kryvyi Rih, also in the center of Ukraine, targeted urban transport and infrastructure, Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city’s military administration, on Telegram, but no injury has been reported.
In the southern city of Odesa, civil infrastructure and residential buildings have been damaged, with fires exploded in several buildings, said regional governor Oleh Kiper on Telegram.
With western Ukraine faced with the threat of air attacks, Poland has activated its own planes and allies to ensure air security, said the operational command of the Polish armed forces.
