{"id":120249,"date":"2025-09-07T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120249\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:39:07","slug":"russia-hits-a-ukrainian-government-building-for-first-time-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120249\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia hits a Ukrainian government building for first time &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC team sees Russian cruise missiles as Russia hits Ukrainian cabinet building for first timepublished at 07:00 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>07:00 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/02b0d985-590e-46f0-ba8a-ffff8a5e8afd.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Sarah Rainsford<br \/>Eastern Europe correspondent, in Kyiv<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ukraine government building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2301a58f-2766-45ef-94c9-d5fd44e90347.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3855\" height=\"2168\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has officially confirmed that the Cabinet building in Kyiv was damaged in the Russian attack early this morning &#8211; the first time the building has been hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The air force reports that a record number of drones and missiles were launched by Russia in the latest nightly attack &#8211; more than 800 in total. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the air force, nine missiles and 56 drones hit 37 locations, and the downed wreckage fell at eight locations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PM says the roof and upper floors of the cabinet building were damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The enemy terrorizes our people across the country every day,&#8221; she writes on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Early this morning we saw a large column of smoke rising into the sky &#8211; from just behind the Maidan, Independence Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We then heard and saw two Russian cruise missiles &#8211; moving at very high speed, before another explosion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This time, it seems they were overwhelmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC team sees Russian cruise missiles as Russia hits Ukrainian cabinet building for first timepublished at 07:00 British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-120249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}