Zelensky condemns ‘ruthless attack’ after Russia hits main government building in Kyiv

The Ukrainian Prime Minister said that the main government building in Ukraine in Kiev had been subjected to the first time in the war during the Russian attacks.

Yulia Sfaidinko said the roof of the building and upper floors was damaged and set fire to “because of the enemy’s attack.”

Officials said at least four people were killed in strikes all over the country, including a child and a young woman who died after a nine -storey residential building was injured in the Svyoshinski area of ​​Kiev.

Ukraine Air Force stated that a record number of drones and missiles were launched by Russia in the last night attack – more than 800 in total.

According to the Air Force, nine missiles and 56 drones hit 37 sites, and the wreckage that fell in eight locations fell.

Ukraine President Volodimir Zelinski said that Al -Wabel caused damage in the cities of Zaborisvia, Cravi Rier and Odisa, as well as in the areas of Sumi and Chairnehif.

“Such killings now, at a time when real diplomacy could have long started, a deliberate crime and an attempt to prolong the war,” said Zelinski on social media, and urged political will from the world to stop the attacks.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said it had carried out strikes around the Ukraine Industrial Complex and Transport Infrastructure, which caused damage to weapons and military equipment.

The Kiev government, which was also struck as the cabinet, is known as the cabinet in the ministers building, as it includes the offices of the main Ukraine ministers.

The mayor of Kyivali Klitschko suggested that a drone may have accidentally hit the cabinet building after its objection, although the details remained unclear on Sunday.

“In the Peersk area, a fire broke out in a government building as a result of the drone of drones that may have been dropped.”

This is a new development in Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. Until now, no government building – KYIV Center has been severely defended, has been since the beginning of the comprehensive invasion. So this will shake people.

It is a symbolic blow. It also clearly explains that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s talk about peace is the situation. It does not stop. Instead, Russia intensifies its attacks.

The BBC team was not allowed near the cabinet building. The entire region is behind a checkpoint, because all the main official buildings are present – the government, parliament and the presidential palace.

But earlier on Sunday, the team saw a large column of smoke rising to the sky from behind a square, Istiqlal Square.

Then they heard and saw Russian cruise missiles moving very quickly, before another explosion.

In a block of apartments in Kiev, she was one woman, Valentina, and her husband was asleep when the strike broke their windows and covered with glass.

“At least we are alive,” she said deeply sadly from the death of a young woman with her child.

People say that the family has just moved to the apartment and that the woman’s husband is in the hospital, and he is severely harmed.

Football apartment Ukraine Georgi Sudakov The 23 -year -old said on Instagram that Kiev also left severe damage after a Russian drone was hit while his wife and children were inside.

Sudakov away from international service with Ukraine, but posting photos and videos of consequences. It was not clear whether the Sudokov family took place in the attack.

Kiev officials said that many multi -storey residential buildings in the provinces of Svyoshinski and Dennitsky were partially destroyed after direct visits.

Elsewhere in Ukraine, 17 people were injured in a strike in the city of Zaporesvia, where many buildings, including houses and custody, said, Ivan Fedorov, head of the regional administration, said.

Fedorov added that a woman was killed and lost a man after a Russian slide bomb hit the village of Novopvvica.

Zelinski said another person was killed in Safonivka, in the SUMY area, and another in the Creamihv area.

Russia also attacked Kryvyi Rih, Zelinski’s birthplace in central Ukraine, where three infrastructure facilities were struck. Air raid warnings have been activated overnight to all regions of the country.

There were also strikes from Ukraine to Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Air Defense Forces shot down or assaulted 69 Ukrainian drones in a number of Russian regions.

On Sunday, the ruler Viacsesslav Ghadlkov said that at least three civilians were killed and the buildings were damaged in the Baljuod area.

Ukrainian Air Force Commander Robert Profidi said that Ukrainian drones hit the Russian oil pipeline. He said that a pumping station in the Russian Bianank region was hit.

Earlier this week, Putin rejected the Western proposals of “the power of reassurance” in Ukraine The next day to enter any ceasefire, in the wake of the Paris Summit aimed at putting the finishing touches on security guarantees plans.

British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer condemned an attack on Sunday in Ukraine, saying they showed that “Putin believes he is able to act without punishment” and “not serious in peace.”

French President Emmanuel Macron said that 26 Ukraine allies have been officially committed to deploying the forces “by land, sea or air” to help provide security at the moment when the fighting stopped. He did not give more details.

Putin sought to crush the Allied Initiative, warning that any forces deployed in Ukraine would be “legitimate targets”.

Russia launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow is currently controlling about 20 % of Ukrainian lands – including the southern Crimea Peninsula, which was illegally included in 2014.

Additional reports by Vitaly Chevchanko