Ukraine Government Building Damaged In Kyiv In The Largest Russian Attack Since The War Began

Kıv, Ukraın (AP) – Russia hit the Ukraine’s capital with drones and missiles on Sunday with drones and missiles in the biggest air strike since the war began, killed four people throughout the country and damaged an important government building.

Ukraine Air Force, Russia attacks with 810 drones and traps and 747 drones and four missiles, he said.

Associated Press reporters saw a smoke feather rising from the roof of Kiev’s government center. It was not immediately clear whether the smoke was a direct stroke or the result of a debris that would indicate an upward rise in Russia’s air campaign, which has saved government buildings in the city center.

The building is the home of the cabinet and ministers of Ukraine. As the fire truck and ambulances arrived, the police prevented access to the building.

An Air Force Spokesman Yuriy Ihnat confirmed that the Associated Press was the largest Russian drone strike in February 2022 since the full -scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia launched 13 missiles. Nine missiles and 54 drones were recorded in 33 locations in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said four people were killed and 44 people were injured. French President Emmanuel Macron said he was talking about the attack on the attack.

Zelenskyy said, uz We are preparing new measures to strengthen our defense with France, ”Zelenskyy said.

On Sunday, Marcon accused Russia in a stunning striking way, and said that Moscow “lacked himself more deeply into the logic of war and terror.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the attack. “These cowardly strikes show that Putin believes that Putin can act with unpunished.

According to the city officials, the attack in the Ukrainian capital killed two people and wounded 20 people.

Tymur Tkachenko, President of Kiev’s City Administration, was a mother who was killed and a 3 -month -old child whose bodies were excavated by rubble. The authority added that at least 10 locations were damaged in Kiv. The direct drone hit hit a nine -storey residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi region of Kiev and a four -storey residential building in Darnytskyi region.

77 -year -old Kiev resident Olha, whose apartment was damaged, said, “I have no more words to express that I felt against Russia,” he said. He did not give his surname. “Although I was an ethnic Russian from outside Moscow. And I never thought that my people could do it.”

Zelenskyy called on sanctions to Russia and Ukraine’s air defenses.

“Now such murders, when the real diplomacy can begin long ago, is a deliberate crime and the prolongation of the war,” he said. “The world may force Kremlin to stop killing criminals, only political will is needed.”

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydeno released a video within the damaged government building, where a fire covering 800 square meters (8,600 feet square) was removed.

“For the first time since the beginning of the full -scale occupation, the Russians hit our government center in the center of Kiev,” he said.

“Apparently Russia is not looking for peace and is not ready for negotiations. We call our partners to help close our sky. Let us strengthen the sanctions against Russia.

In a statement on Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that he used “high -precision weapons” and drones to hit a logistics facility on the skirts of Kiev and a logistics facility on the skirts of Kiev, to the military air bases in Middle, Southern and East Ukraine, to drone assembly and storage areas on Sunday.

The Ministry claimed that “all the objects identified were shot” and that they could refer to the damaged government building “no strikes in other objects within the borders of Kiev”.

Sunday’s attack second Mass russian drone and missile attack To target Kiev within two weeks in the hope of peace negotiations.

After European leaders promised Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end the war after the 26 Ukrainian allies promised to end the war after the war ended as the war for the war.

Zelenskyy said he was ready to meet Putin to negotiate a peace agreement, and called for US President Donald Trump to impose punishing sanctions to force Russia to end the war.

Moscow repeatedly objected to Ukraine for any Western Union distribution and first pushed back against a Putin-Zelenskyy summit and said that lower-level talks should be held first.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that air defenses seized a total of 100 Ukrainian drones on Saturday and 8:00 on Sunday and 8:00 on Sunday, on Sunday, on Sunday, on Sunday.

According to the statement, most of them have been reduced on Belgorod, Voronezh and Krasnodar regions near the Ukrainian border.

Local officials, Krasnodar region, falling drone remains in an oil refinery, a short fire, he said. Authorities, Belgorod and Voronezh two people were injured in the region, he said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that his troops seized the village of Khoroshe in the Dnipropetrovsk region. There was no immediately confirmation from Ukraine.

A previous version of this story misrepresented that drone remains hit a four -storey building in the Sviatoshynskyi region. It was a nine -storey building.

Associated Press journalists Volodymyr Yurchuk and Susie Blann in Kiev, John Leicester in Paris and Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.