Kyiv – Ukraine reported that Russia’s largest overnight air strike during the ongoing war set the main government building in Kyiv ablaze, causing three fatalities, according to Ukrainian officials on Sunday, reports 24brussels.
The Kyiv government building, known as the cabinet of ministers building, houses the offices of key Ukrainian ministers.
“For the first time, the Government building was damaged by an enemy strike — its roof and upper floors,”
stated Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko via the Telegram messaging app.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported on the same platform that Russia launched 805 drones and 13 missiles into Ukraine overnight. Ukrainian defense units managed to shoot down 751 drones and four missiles. The air force indicated that nine missiles and 56 drones struck 37 locations, leading to wreckage falling across eight sites.
What damage did the Russian strike cause in Kyiv?
Timur Tkachenko, head of the capital’s military administration, disclosed that the deceased included an infant, whose body was retrieved from the rubble in the Darnytskyi district, where a four-storey apartment building sustained damage.
Additionally, Tkachenko reported that a young woman died during the attack on the area east of the Dnipro River. State emergency officials noted that 18 individuals sustained injuries during the overnight assault, which resulted in fires throughout the city. Earlier, Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned that an elderly woman perished in a bomb shelter in Darnytskyi, while a pregnant woman was among the injured.
State emergency officials announced that a fire erupted in two floors of a four-story residential building afflicted by a drone strike, which rendered part of the structure compromised. In the western Sviatoshynskyi district, several floors of a nine-storey residential building were partially destroyed, according to reports from Klitschko and emergency officials.
When was Kyiv last targeted with a strike this large?
Prior to this incident, Kyiv was last targeted by a significant combined missile and drone assault approximately two weeks ago, from August 27-28, 2025. That strike, involving around 600 drones and nearly 30 missiles, destroyed residential buildings and inflicted severe damage on cultural institutions and foreign missions. At least 18 individuals died, including children, with many more injured during what was the most severe attack in a month on Kyiv.