Russia launches largest aerial bombardment of Ukraine

俄罗斯对乌克兰发动了史上最大规模的空中轰炸

Newshour

2025-09-07

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Russia has launched its largest aerial bombardment of Ukraine of the war, firing over 800 missiles and drones into the territory. The attack killed at least three people and has hit a government compound for the first time. We get the latest from Kyiv and speak to a member of Ukraine's parliament. Also in the programme: US President Trump threatens to send the national guard to Chicago, after deploying troops in two other major cities; and the Catholic Church's first saint from the Millennial generation. (Photo: smoke billowing over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, after a Russian hit. Credit: Shutterstock / Dolzhenko)
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  • You're listening to the BBC World Service.

  • This is NewsHour with me, Gary O'Donohue.

  • We begin today in Ukraine,

  • where Russia has launched its largest aerial bombardment of the war against Ukraine early on Sunday,

  • firing more than 800 drones and missiles.

  • The attack has killed at least three people in the capital, including an infant.

  • It also hit a government compound for the first time,

  • with the Cabinet of Ministers building seeing extensive damage to its roof and upper floors.

  • A BBC cameraman captured the moment the bomb struck.

  • Smoke could be seen billowing across the night sky with helicopters attempting to douse the flames.

  • More than 20 houses and a kinder gun were also damaged in Zaporizhia.

  • President Zelensky said there was also fatalities in Sumi and Chernev regions.

  • He described the attacks as conscious crimes and a prolongation of the war.

  • I'm joined on the line now by our correspondent Sarah Rainsford, who's in Kiev.

  • What's the latest on the casualties?

  • Well, we've just come back from a block of flats in Kiev,

  • one of the residential areas that was hit by drones overnight.

  • And I've been speaking to people there, standing amongst the ruins of their block of flats.

  • And they've been telling me about waking up to multiple explosions this morning.

  • The whole of one entranceway of the block of flats is blackened.