Ukrainian officials announced on Sunday that a child was among the three people killed in overnight Russian attacks on Kyiv, which also injured 18 people and set numerous buildings on fire, including the government headquarters.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said the main government building was damaged for the first time since the war began and that firefighters were extinguishing the fires.
The Ukrainian Air Force announced that Russia launched 805 drones and 13 missiles at Ukraine during the night.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a fire broke out in a government building in the city center immediately after the attack, which started with a drone barrage followed by missile strikes. Reuters witnesses saw thick smoke rising from the building in the Pecherskyi district.
A child and a young woman were killed in the drone attacks, Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app, adding that a pregnant woman was among the five people hospitalized.
Earlier, Klitschko had said that an elderly woman died in a bomb shelter in the green Darnitskyi district east of the Dnieper River, where two other people died.
State emergency service officials said a fire broke out on two of the four floors of a residential building in the district hit by a drone attack, with its structure partially destroyed.
In the western Sviatoshynskyi district, several floors of a nine-story residential building were partially destroyed, Klitschko and emergency service representatives said.
Drone parts and debris caused fires in a 16-story residential building and two other nine-story buildings, the mayor added.
Smoke billowed over residential buildings, some with partially collapsed facades, according to photos posted on social media by emergency officials. Russia “deliberately and consciously attacked civilian targets,” said Timur Tkachenko, head of the capital’s military administration, on Telegram.
Dozens of explosions shook the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, causing power outages in some areas, said Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi on Telegram.
By hitting the offices of Ukraine's Prime Minister, Putin has just changed the rules, he just doesn't know it yet. pic.twitter.com/QZtTbL9let
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) September 7, 2025
Russian attacks on Kryvyi Rih in the same region targeted transport and urban infrastructure, said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration, on Telegram, but no injuries were reported.
In the southern city of Odesa, civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged, and fires broke out in several residential buildings, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks, but thousands have died in the war that Russia began with its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
With western Ukraine facing the threat of airstrikes, Poland has activated its own and allied aircraft to ensure air security, according to the operational command of the Polish armed forces.
Source: Nova; Photo: Printscreen X