Kyiv (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Ukraine reported that Russia’s biggest overnight air strike of the war set the main government building in Kyiv on fire, resulting in three deaths, according to Ukrainian officials on Sunday.
The Kyiv government building, also called the cabinet of ministers building, contains the offices of Ukraine’s key ministers.
“For the first time, the Government building was damaged by an enemy strike — its roof and upper floors,”
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported on Telegram that Russia launched 805 drones into Ukraine overnight, along with 13 missiles. Ukrainian defence units successfully shot down 751 drones and four missiles. The air force reports that nine missiles and 56 drones struck 37 locations, with wreckage falling at eight sites.
What damage did the russian strike cause in Kyiv?
Timur Tkachenko, head of the capital’s military administration, reported that among the dead was an infant whose body was recovered from the rubble in the Darnytskyi district, where a four-storey apartment building was damaged.
Tkachenko reported that a young woman also died during the attack on the district east of the Dnipro River. State emergency officials stated that 18 people were injured in the overnight attack, which caused fires across the city. Earlier, Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that an elderly woman lost her life in a bomb shelter in Darnytskyi, and among the injured was a pregnant woman.
State emergency officials reported a fire in two floors of a four-story residential building in the district hit by a drone attack, with part of the structure damaged. In the western district of Sviatoshynskyi, several floors of a nine-storey residential building were partially destroyed, according to Klitschko and emergency officials.
When was Kyiv last targeted with a strike this large?
Before this attack, Kyiv had last been struck by a large combined missile and drone attack about two weeks ago, on August 27-28, 2025. That attack was a large strike, with approximately 600 drones and almost 30 missiles, destroying residential buildings and severely damaging cultural institutions and foreign missions. The strike killed at least 18 people, including children, and injured dozens more during the worst strike in a month in Kyiv.
