2025-09-10
30 分钟BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.
It's 1294 days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine.
And over the weekend, there was another huge attack,
a record number of drones and missiles launched by Russia.
And Vitaly, when I first got the news alert about the attack,
I did a double take because I was like a government building.
This is the first time we've seen such a heavily defended area of the capital struck like this.
I mean, it was quite, it was shocking.
You were absolutely right, Lucy, to do a double take,
because that area hardly ever gets targeted, definitely not the actual government buildings.
The district called Pichersk is where President Zelensky's offices are, the parliament building,
and the main government building, the cabinet of ministers building,
which was hit on the morning of Sunday.
We understand that a missile hit the top floors of the 10th floor building, causing a massive fire.
Thankfully, nobody got killed,
but it's very unusual as though one of the last few remaining rules of war has been broken,
the rule that said that you don't target the most important government buildings,
even though You might remember that back in 2023,
a couple of Ukrainian drones hit the actual Kremlin.
But back then,