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The circumstances around the hit to Ukraine's main government building amid Russian attacks remain unclear.

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko suggested a drone may have accidentally hit the Cabinet of Ministers building after being intercepted.

“In Pechersk district, a fire broke out in a government building as a result of an UAV possibly being shot down,” he wrote on Telegram.

We'll bring you more details as we have them.

Sarah Rainsford
Southern and Eastern Europe Correspondent in Kyiv

In Kyiv, a fire has been put out at a giant block of flats, revealing a blackened, smashed-up section of building where a woman and her baby son were killed this morning.

Emergency workers are up in the ruins, tethered to a crane, trying to make the place safe - possibly still searching for bodies. All around there are residents of the building with just the few belongings they grabbed as the drone hit - along with their pets. I have seen lots of people in their slippers.

In three and a half years of war there have been so many strikes like this, and now the authorities’ response is swift. There are volunteers with tents offering free hot food and psychologists on standby for all those struggling to take in what’s happened and their loss.

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says that 20 people, including a pregnant woman, were injured in the attacks. Seven were taken to hospital, including the pregnant woman, while the others were treated at the scene, he says.

Two deaths have been confirmed so far in the city, Klitschko says - a young woman and her two-month-old son.

Search and rescue operations are ongoing, he adds.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

More details are coming in of Russian attacks across Ukraine overnight.

President Zelensky's home city of Kryvyy Rih was attacked with ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones, says local administration head Oleksandr Vilkul.

"It was a hard night," he says on social media as transport infrastructure, businesses, an industrial facility, an educational establishment and about a dozen blocks of flats were damaged and three people were injured.

In Nikopol, a town south-east of Kryvyy Rih, one civilian was killed and another injured, Vilkul adds.

In Kremenchuk, central Poltava region, a bridge across the Dnieper river was hit and an administrative building was targeted elsewhere in the region, the local authorities say. They add that no casualties have been reported after the attacks.

The southern port city of Odesa and surrounding areas came under a drone attack, too. Civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged, the local administration says.

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After her husband urged allies to act, Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska has condemned last night's "record breaking" attack on her country.

Writing on social media, she says that overnight "a record-breaking 800 drones flew at peaceful cities, residential buildings and infrastructure".

She adds that these strikes "took innocent lives" with shelling continuing into the morning.

"Today, Ukrainians are united in grief and in their strength to support each other," she writes.

As we've been reporting, Kyiv is reeling after a night of missile attacks as Vladimir Putin's war in the country rages on.

Ukraine's government building was damaged for the first time, and images show residents seeking shelter as sirens rang out in the capital.

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Russia's defence ministry says it intercepted at least 69 drones from Ukraine in an overnight attack.

It says it stopped 21 of them which were over Krasnodar Krai, 13 in the Voronezh region, and 10 over the Belgorod region.

The rest were intercepted across different regions in Russia.

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In his first response to Russia's overnight attacks, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged allies to "implement everything that was agreed upon in Paris".

Writing on Telegram, Zelensky says Ukraine was hit by "more than 800 drones, 13 missiles, four of them ballistic".

Citing reports that a 32-year-old woman and her two-month-old child was killed in Kyiv, Zelensky says: "Such murders now, when real diplomacy could have begun long ago, are a deliberate crime and a prolongation of the war".

And, after the so-called "coalition of the willing" met in Paris this week for further talks on security guarantees for Ukraine, Zelensky urges allies to "implement everything that was agreed".

As we reported earlier on, Vladimir Putin rejected any suggestion of Ukraine's allies sending a "reassurance force" to the country after a ceasefire is agreed with Russia.

"The world can force the Kremlin criminals to stop killing, all that is needed is political will," he writes.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

Elsewhere in Ukraine, 17 people were injured in a Russian strike on the city of Zaporizhzhia yesterday evening, regional administration head Ivan Fedorov says.

Writing on social media, he says 16 apartment blocks, 12 private houses, a kindergarten and factories were damaged.

Outside the city, a woman was killed and a man is still missing after a Russian glide bomb attack on the village of Novopavlivka, Fedorov says.

Twist in Russia's attacks shows Putin is posturing over peace talkspublished at 07:50 British Summer Time

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Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent, in Kyiv

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This is a new twist in Russia’s attacks on Ukraine.

Until now, no government building has been hit - the centre of Kyiv is very heavily defended, it has been since the start of the full-scale invasion.

So this will shake people.

It’s a symbolic strike. It also shows clearly that Vladimir Putin’s talk about being ready for peace is all posturing. He’s not stopping. Instead, Russia is intensifying its attacks.

We are not being allowed close to the cabinet building: this whole area is behind a checkpoint, because all the main official buildings are here - government, parliament and the presidential palace.

But earlier we saw helicopters overhead dropping water onto the flames. The cloud of smoke rising over the city from the fire was huge.

We don’t know of any casualties here - it was early on Sunday morning.

But across Kyiv, and Ukraine, there are dead and injured: a woman and a baby were killed in their block of flats this morning. Rescuers are still looking for other casualties.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

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A little earlier we reported that two people have so far been confirmed killed in Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes on the capital.

Now, Ukrainian police say the two people whose bodies were recovered from the scene of the attack in Kyiv's Svyatoshynsky district are a 32-year-old woman and her son aged just two months.

Their apartment block was partly destroyed in the Russian attack, which also set fire to neighbouring buildings, cars and warehouses.

The police also confirm that a further 16 people were injured after the attack on Kyiv.

Ukraine attacked Russia's oil pipeline in the country's western Bryansk region overnight, according to the head of Ukraine's drone forces.

Writing on Telegram, Robert "Magyar" Brovdi says "the facility is of strategic importance for the transportation of oil products from Belarusian refineries to the Russian Federation".

Brovdi says "complex fire damage" was inflicted to the oil pump by Ukrainian units.

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Ukraine's foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, has called for a strong response from Ukraine's allies as Russia "escalates its terror" against the embattled country.

"For the first time, more than 800 (!) drones and missiles overnight. Civilians killed and injured, civilian infrastructure damaged in Kyiv, Odesa, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, among other cities," he writes on social media.

Sybiha also confirms that one of the government buildings in Kyiv was hit for the first time. "This alone is a serious escalation," he says.

"The greatest cynicism is that these brutal attacks come just as President Trump makes every effort to achieve peace," he adds, saying that Putin instead "rejects diplomacy and escalates terror."

Sybiha calls for severe sanctions on Russian oil and gas revenues, as well as further air defence support for Ukraine.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

A young woman and a baby under one year old are among the dead as a nine-storey residential building was hit in Kyiv's Svyatoshynsky district, the Ukrainian capital's mayor Vitaly Klitschko says.

Rescuers are looking for a third body, he adds.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin this week rejected Western proposals for a “reassurance force” to be deployed in Ukraine if a ceasefire is agreed.

It's comes after French President Emmanuel Macron led a Paris summit this week with members of the so-called “coalition of the willing”, aimed at finalising plans for security guarantees.

Macron stresses that any troops would be deployed to prevent "any new major aggression" and not at the front line. The force "does not have the will or the objective of waging war against Russia", he says.

But Putin has sought to quash the allies’ initiative, and has warned that any troops deployed to Ukraine would be “legitimate targets”.

And, speaking to the BBC, Putin’s spokesman says that any foreign forces, whether belonging to Nato or otherwise, would be a danger to Russia "because we are an enemy of Nato".

• Our Europe digital editor has more on what plans to send a "reassurance force" to Ukraine might look like

Ukraine's air force says Russia launched 805 drones and 13 missiles in its overnight attack.

Of those, 751 were shot down, the air force says.

Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent, in Kyiv

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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has officially confirmed that the Cabinet building in Kyiv was damaged in the Russian attack early this morning - the first time the building has been hit.

The air force reports that a record number of drones and missiles were launched by Russia in the latest nightly attack - more than 800 in total.

According to the air force, nine missiles and 56 drones hit 37 locations, and the downed wreckage fell at eight locations.

The PM says the roof and upper floors of the cabinet building were damaged.

"The enemy terrorizes our people across the country every day," she writes on social media.

Early this morning we saw a large column of smoke rising into the sky - from just behind the Maidan, Independence Square.

We then heard and saw two Russian cruise missiles - moving at very high speed, before another explosion.

It’s very rare for Russian missiles and drones to hit right in the city centre like this, because of the concentration of air defence in the area.

This time, it seems they were overwhelmed.

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One of Kyiv's main government building has been damaged as a result of the overnight strikes.

On Facebook, Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko writes that "for the first time, the Government building, roof and upper floors have been damaged due to an enemy attack. Rescuers are extinguishing the fire."

The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, says the government building was on fire as a result of “an alleged drone strike”.

The building was located in the central Pecherskyi district, Klitschko writes in a post on Telegram. He says firefighters are still working at the scene.

Elsewhere in the capital, a warehouse,16-storey residential building, and a four storey building were struck.

Adam Goldsmith
Live reporter

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At least two people have been killed and 13 injured in overnight strikes by Russia on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

One of the victims was a baby under one year old, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Kyiv's military administration head Tymur Tkachenko says. A young woman is also believed to have been killed.

Tkachenko is urging residents to remain in shelters, and warns that Russia is “deliberately hitting civilian facilities”.

Meanwhile, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported a fire at a government building in the central Pecherskyi district - saying the blaze was likely caused by a downed Russian drone.

Russia is yet comment on the strikes, but its defence ministry says its air defence forces shot down or intercepted 69 Ukrainian drones in a number of Russian regions.

The overnight attacks on Ukraine come as Vladimir Putin hardens his warnings to the West not to come to the aid of the embattled country - we’ll unpick exactly what he said about a “reassurance force” as we take you through this morning’s events.