War in Ukraine

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A government building struck in Kyiv and a new threat from Trump

Trump says he'll respond after Ukraine's main cabinet building was hit
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  1. A police officer stands out of focus in the foreground. In the background, people wearing dark clothes and blue latex gloves walk in a hole in a damaged white house, the wooden roof beams exposed.

  2. Путин и дроны

  3. Polish soldiers stand in front of a house destroyed with blown out roof

  4. Polish military and drone experts inspect the crash site of a Russian drone in the village of Wohyń, eastern Poland. Photo: 10 September 2025

  5. Stylised image showing a map of Ukraine overlaid with images of tanks and a soldier holding a shoulder launcher

  6. Latvian, Spanish and Nato flags flutter in front of an air defence system during military exercises on a field in Latvia.

  7. Russia's Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump

  8. People watching container ship arriving in the mouth of the harbour at Kochi, Kerala, India.

  9. Roman Melnik sits in a black t shirt on a sofa with a grin on his face, staring into the camera

  10. Ukriane's main government building in Kyiv is burning following a Russian air attack. Photo: 7 September 2025

  11. A photo posted by Ukraine's state emergency service DSNS showing a destroyed postal service vehicle in Yarova, Donetsk region

  12. The outgoing UK chief of the defence staff, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, explains on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.

  13. Sarah Rainsford wearing a hard hat in destroyed building

  14. A Ukrspecsystems drone with a shark face and design on its note propped up on a wooden stand in a field.

  15. Donald Trump, wearing a red tie and dark suit, speaks toward the camera.

  16. Magnus Freyer, who has short brown hair, smiles into camera. He is wearing a black top in front of a yellow and blue Ukraine flag

  17. The image shows a large grey and light stone building, the main Ukraine government building, set against a blue sky with eight windows wide and six to seven windows vertical, with the top two floors on the right hand side on fire. There are cranes attempting to extinguish the fire,

  18. Georgiy Sudakov during a match for Ukraine

  19. Sarah Rainsford stood reporting on Kyiv street, alongside an image of a helicopter carrying water over a smoking builing in Kyiv

  20. John Caldwell, sat in a vehicle, is wearing a white hat and Fynn Watt, is leaning through the vehicle's left front window, as they both pose for the picture with a sign for Ukraine visible through the vehicle's back windscreen.

  21. An inflatable tank in Ukraine

  22. Former US Vice-President Mike Pence

  23. Three women dressed in running vests and leggings are smiling at the camera, they are holding a Ukrainian flag. The photograph is taken during training at the beach in Sunderland, the sand and sea can be seen in the background of the image.