Russia’s largest air attack against Ukraine sets fire to the main government

The largest air attack on Russia has set fire to the main building of the Ukrainian government 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.”

Witnesses told Reuters that they had seen the last floor of the main building of the Ukrainian government, located in the historic district of Pecherskyi, burning, with thick smoke rising in the light blue sky just after sunrise.

The Air Force of Ukraine said on Telegram that Russia had launched 805 drones and 13 missiles in the country during the night, with Ukrainian defense units lowering 751 drones and four missiles.

It was the largest number of drones that Russia used to attack its neighbor since Moscow launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Timur Tkachenko, the chief of military administration of the capital, said that an infant’s body had been removed from the Darnytskyi district of the district of 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.

State emergency officials said 18 people were injured in the night attack, caused fires throughout the city.

Moscow did not immediately comment on the attacks. The two parties denied targeting civilians in the strikes, but thousands of people died war Russia was launched with a large -scale invasion of Ukraine three and a half years ago.

Earlier, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said that an elderly woman died in a bomb shelter in Darnytskyi, and a pregnant woman was part of the injured.

State emergency officials declared that a fire had broken out in two of the four floors of a residential building in the district which was affected in the attack of the drone, its partially destroyed structure.

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 has sparked fires in a 16 -storey apartments building and two other nine -story buildings, said the mayor.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Svyrydenko called for more weapons and the world to respond to Russian attacks.

“We are going to rebuild buildings,” she said. “But the lost lives cannot be brought back. The enemy terrorizes and kills our people across the country every day.”

The smoke has died out of apartments, some with partially collapsed floors and collapsed, photos published on social networks by emergency officials have shown.

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said that she spoke with her Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha, following the attacks.

“Ukraine’s struggle for its territorial integrity is also a struggle for freedom and international order based on the rules that have kept us in security since the end of the Second World War,” wrote Anand on X on Sunday, calling “flagrant” strikes.

Anand said Canada would continue to support Ukraine with a decision of $ 22 billion in military, humanitarian and financial aid, as well as sanctions on 3,300 people and “entities” and a ceiling on oil prices.

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.

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Moscow says that he struck infrastructure in Ukraine; Kyiv says he struck Russian refineries

Russia said it launched a radical attack on Ukraine who had killed a person and injured at least 24, damaging infrastructure and residential buildings. Meanwhile, Kyiv reported having struck two of the oil refineries in his rival while the war that started in February 2022 has shown no signs of slowdown.

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.

Sunday’s attack is the second mass of Russian drones and missile attack to target kyiv in two weeks, while hopes for peace talks have won.

The attack comes after European leaders reached Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war after 26 of the Ukrainian allies have committed to deploy troops as “comfort force” for the war torn by the war once the fighting is over.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready to meet Putin to negotiate a peace agreement and urged US President Donald Trump to impose punishing sanctions on Russia to push her to end the war.