Volodymyr Zelensky says overnight Russian strikes on Kyiv's main government building are a "ruthless attack" and vows an "appropriate response"
UK PM Starmer says he is "appalled " by the strikes while French President Macron accuses Russia of "locking itself into the logic of war and terror" as European leaders rally around Ukraine
Zelensky says four people been killed – including one infant – and more than 44 injured after residential buildings were hit in strikes across the capital
Until now no government building has been hit so this will shake people, writes our correspondent in Kyiv who witnessed smoke and explosions
Russia says that it only targeted military and related infrastructure in the strikes
The attacks come as Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West against sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine after a ceasefire is agreed
Watch: BBC at the scene of Ukrainian government building strike
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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Image source, ReutersRussia'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.
Image source, ReutersIn 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.
Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent, in Kyiv
Image source, ReutersThis 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
Image source, Ukraine State Emergency ServiceA 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.
Image source, X/Andrii SybihaUkraine'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.
Image source, EPA/SputnikRussian 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".
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
Image source, ReutersUkraine’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.
Image source, reuOne 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
Image source, ReutersAt 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.