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ARTICLE VIEW:
Russia strikes Ukrainian government building, in largest air attack of
war
By Svitlana Vlasova, Victoria Butenko, Todd Symons, Nadeen Ebrahim and
Laura Sharman, CNN
Updated:
4:47 AM EDT, Mon September 8, 2025
Source: CNN
Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight
into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a government
building in Kyiv for the first time.
The attack hit the Cabinet of Ministers building, which houses the
prime minister’s office, as well as some government ministries, for
the first time since the war began.
An infant was among at least two people killed in drone strikes on
several residential buildings in the capital, which was under an
air-raid siren for 11 hours, Kyiv’s city office said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X that a total of four
people had been killed across all of Ukraine Sunday and 44 had been
injured.
Moscow’s forces launched a total of 810 drones, four ballistic
missiles and nine cruise missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said. While
most were shot down by air defenses, 54 drones and nine missiles hit
targets across Ukraine, the air force said.
That surpasses the size of a by Moscow that was previously the largest
of the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of its
neighbor in February 2022.
The assault comes after recent attempts by Kyiv’s Western allies to
broker a peace deal as momentum to end the war stalls, leaving the
White House frustrated. In an interview with ABC News aired Sunday,
Zelensky said that US President Donald Trump “gave (Russian President
Vladimir) Putin what he wanted” at last month’s Alaska summit
between the two world leaders which ended with .
Trump told reporters on Sunday he will speak with Putin “very soon”
to address the Russia-Ukraine conflict and expressed his disapproval
“with anything having to do with that war,” amid mounting
frustrations over stalled peace efforts.
“I am not thrilled with what’s happening there,” he told
reporters.
The US president also appeared to suggest that some European leaders
will visit the White House early this week.
The president’s comments come after he signaled to reporters earlier
in the day that his administration is to the second phase of sanctions
against Russia.
Also on Sunday, Zelensky described the latest attack as “vile,”
saying “such killings now, when real diplomacy could have started a
long time ago, are a deliberate crime and a prolongation of the war.”
“The world can make the Kremlin’s criminals stop killing, all we
need is political will,” Zelensky said.
Keith Kellogg, the Trump administration’s special envoy to Ukraine
and Russia, said later on Sunday that Moscow appears to be escalating
its war, adding that the attack on Kyiv “was not a signal that Russia
wants to diplomatically end this war.”
Earlier this week, Putin said any Western troops in Ukraine would be
considered “legitimate targets for defeat,” a day after it was
announced that dozens of Western countries have pledged to contribute
to a potential peacekeeping force there if a ceasefire deal is agreed.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko called it a “massive
attack,” saying the cities of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Kremenchuk, and
Odesa all came under fire, as well as Kyiv.
“For the first time, the government building, its roof, and upper
floors were damaged by the enemy attacks. Rescuers are extinguishing
the fire. I thank them for their work,” Svyrydenko said.
The building is in Kyiv’s government quarter, next to the parliament
and close to the office of the president.
“We will rebuild the buildings. But the lives lost cannot be brought
back. Every day, the enemy terrorizes and kills our people across the
country,” said Svyrydenko.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said that in the
coming week, a meeting will be held focusing on “strengthening air
defense and enhancing Ukraine’s capability to respond with strikes
deep into the aggressor’s territory.”
Ukraine said Sunday that it had attacked two Russian energy facilities
overnight in Russia’s Bryansk region and the southern Krasnodar
Territory.
Residential buildings targeted
Rescuers found the body of an infant under the rubble of a building in
the western Kyiv neighborhood of Sviatoshynskyi, said Tymur Tkachenko,
head of the city’s military administration.
The child was under the age of one, according to Kyiv’s mayor Vitali
Klitschko, who said a young woman was also killed.
A nine-floor apartment building in the Sviatoshynskyi district was
“severely damaged,” Klitschko said in a Telegram post, adding that
four floors of the building were “partially destroyed.”
“Also in Sviatoshynskyi district, debris hit a 16-story residential
building, causing a fire on the 15th and 16th floors.” Klitschko
said. There were fires at two additional multistory apartment blocks in
the same district, and at another building in the eastern Darnytskyi
district, he said.
At least 18 people were wounded, Ukraine’s State Emergency Services
(SES) said, describing the drone strikes on the capital as a “massive
attack.” The agency released images showing several buildings with
large holes in the side and firefighters working at the scene.
Russia’s attack also hit a bridge in Kremenchuk over the Dnipro
River, in a rare attack far from the frontlines. The bridge is a main
crossing point over the river dividing the country into its left and
right banks.
‘From strike to strike’
Residents were left reeling from the attack, with some telling CNN it
was the most terrifying attack of the war. Yulia, a local resident,
said she woke up to explosions that left whistles in her ears as her
building shook. “Everyone feels the same way, everyone is shaking,
everyone hopes that it will fly past and not hit them. We don’t feel
anything anymore, except anger,” she said.
Olha Biliashova, another resident who lives near a hit building, said
that “in all four years of war, this was the first time it was
extremely scary.”
“That’s how we live, from attack to attack, from strike to
strike.”
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the attack, saying in a post
on X that Russia “is locking itself ever deeper into the logic of war
and terror.”
“By Ukraine’s side, we will continue to do everything to ensure
that a just and lasting peace prevails,” Macron said.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said “once again,
the Kremlin is mocking diplomacy, trampling international law and
killing indiscriminately.”
The head of the European Union’s executive arm that Europe stands
“fully behind Ukraine,” adding that “we are reinforcing
Ukraine’s armed forces, building lasting security guarantees, and
tightening sanctions to increase pressure on Russia.”
Earlier on Sunday, aircraft had been activated to ensure the safety of
Polish airspace following Russian attacks in western Ukraine near the
border with Poland, the country’s armed forces said, according to
Reuters.
“Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while
ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have been
brought to the highest state of readiness,” Poland’s operational
command said in a
CNN’s Billy Stockwell contributed to this report.
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