US president Donald Trump has said he is ready to push ahead with a new round of sanctions after Russia targeted the main government building in Kyiv for the first time since the Ukraine war began in 2022.
However, Mr Trump did not specify what he envisions as the “second stage” of sanctions against Russia, the New York Post reported.
The aerial attack on Kyiv was part of a record assault overnight that involved a total of at least 805 drones and 13 missiles fired at cities across Ukraine, killing two people including a three-month-old baby.
Ukraine's prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko called on the world to "respond to this destruction not only with words, but with actions".
Vladimir Putin has so far largely refrained from targeting government buildings in Kyiv’s historic centre.
It is the second time Putin has launched a mass Russian drone and missile attack targeting the capital in a span of two weeks, despite claiming to want a peaceful end to the war.
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- Russia launches largest drone attack on Ukraine
- Infant among two killed in Russian strike on Kyiv
Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia
03:00 , Holly EvansNearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred to Russia since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in 2022, and subjected to military training, sexual violence and detention in camps, according to a new report.
The report, based on 200 documented cases of recently returned children and young people, found that 41 per cent were forced to take part in weapons training or join paramilitary youth movements such as Yunarmiya.
Another 39 per cent experienced forced displacement to far-flung locations in Russia, Crimea or Belarus, with 17 per cent detained in filtration camps or police stations and 10 per cent subjected to torture or cruel treatment.
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Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia
Mike Pence has ‘no doubt’ Russia will attack Nato country if successful in Ukraine
02:00 , Holly Evans
Mike Pence has ‘no doubt’ Russia will attack Nato country if successful in Ukraine
Mass mortuaries, forensics and rare cooperation with Russia: The agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s war dead
01:00 , Holly EvansUkrainians in forensic suits unloading thousands of bodies of their fallen countrymen from refrigerated vehicles makes for a depressing spectacle.
But in the three-and-a-half-year-long war between Russia and Ukraine, the repatriation of the dead might be one of the rare, all-too-brief moments of cooperation between the two warring countries.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a caseload of 154,200 people missing from both sides of the front line as of August, whose fate or whereabouts remain unknown. It is expected that it will take decades for families to receive answers about their loved ones.
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Inside the agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s thousands of war dead
Starmer condemns Putin over ‘cowardly’ assault on Kyiv
Monday 8 September 2025 00:00 , Holly EvansSir Keir Starmer said Vladimir Putin has shown he is “not serious about peace” as he joined allies in condemning Russian strikes that marked the largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began.
The Prime Minister said the “brutal” and “cowardly” assault on Kyiv, which killed at least two people, proved that the Russian president felt he could “act with impunity”.
French president Emmanuel Macron, with whom Sir Keir leads the so-called “coalition of the willing”, said Moscow was “locking itself ever deeper into the logic of war and terror”.
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Russia assaults Ukraine with over 800 drones and decoys, the largest such attack in the war
Sunday 7 September 2025 23:00 , Holly EvansRussia hit Ukraine's capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began, killing at least two people and leaving smoke rising from the roof of a key government building.
Russia attacked Ukraine with 805 drones and decoys, officials said.
Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Air Force, confirmed to The Associated Press that Sunday’s attack was the largest Russian drone strike since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Russia also launched 13 missiles of various types.
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Russia assaults Ukraine with over 800 drones and decoys, the largest such attack in the war
These Ukrainians refused to leave their homes. Now they have no choice
Sunday 7 September 2025 22:00 , Holly EvansFor residents of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, evacuation often begins with a defining blast – the explosion that makes staying impossible. For 69-year-old Tetiana Zaichikova, this moment arrived when a strike reduced her home to rubble.
The region has been the epicentre of heavy fighting for years, with evacuations a grim constant since Russia’s full-scale invasion began over three years ago.
Towns across the area, larger than Slovenia, are steadily emptying as Russian forces now control around 70 per cent of the territory.
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These Ukrainians refused to leave their homes. Now they have no choice
Russia boasts it is ‘world leader’ in prosthetic limbs due to war in Ukraine
Sunday 7 September 2025 21:00 , Holly EvansA Kremlin official and relative of Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia has become a world leader in making prosthetic limbs.
Deputy defence minister Anna Tsivilyova, said to be the daughter of Putin’s cousin, said Russia had achieved “huge breakthroughs” in prosthetic innovation due to the Ukraine war.
She told the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok: “It is precisely the participants in the special military operation who have allowed us to reach such a priority flagship level,” speaking of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Russia boasts it is ‘world leader’ in prosthetic limbs due to war in Ukraine
Trump is undermining Europe’s new world order – much to Putin’s glee
Sunday 7 September 2025 20:01 , Holly EvansVladimir Putin has lost no time in warning that he’d attack foreign troops stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal he has no intention of signing while Donald Trump continues to undermine Europe’s defences.
Speaking in Vladivostok, Putin – who claims that Ukraine’s intention to join Nato is the reason his forces invaded – said: “If some troops appear there, especially now, during military operations, we proceed from the fact that these will be legitimate targets for destruction.”
His words came less than 24 hours after French president Emmanuel Macron announced that there are now 26 countries in the “coalition of the willing”, which includes the UK, that are prepared to deploy forces to Ukraine.
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Trump is undermining Europe’s new world order – much to Putin’s glee
Trump ready to push ahead with a new round of sanctions
Sunday 7 September 2025 19:07 , Rebecca WhittakerUS President Donald Trump has said he is ready to push ahead with a new round of sanctions after Russia targeted the main government building in Kyiv for the first time since the Ukraine war began in 2022.
Trump was asked by reporters whether he is ready to move to the “second stage” of sanctions against Russia, and he replied yes.
However, Trump did not specify what he envisions as the “second stage” of sanctions against Russia, New York Post reported.
Trump tells European leaders that buying Russian oil is helping Moscow fund war against Ukraine
Sunday 7 September 2025 19:00 , Holly EvansU.S. President Donald Trump told European leaders that countries in the continent must stop buying Russian oil, claiming that it is helping Moscow fund its war against Ukraine, a White House official said.
Trump joined a call of the “Coalition of the Willing” countries, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, who were meeting in Paris on security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace deal with Russia.
He struck a combative tone amid slow diplomatic progress to end the fighting and emphasized that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil that is funding the war - as Russia received 1.1 billion euros in fuel sales from the EU in one year,” the official said.
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Buying Russian oil is helping Moscow fund war against Ukraine, Trump says
US could take lead in ‘buffer zone’ inside Ukraine to protect future Russia aggression if peace deal materializes
Sunday 7 September 2025 18:00 , Holly EvansAmerican and Ukrainian officials have reportedly been mulling over a plan for American air and satellite surveillance assets to monitor a future Korea-like demilitarized area separating Ukrainian-controlled and Russian-controlled territory within Ukraine’s borders as part of a possible peace plan.
Citing multiple persons familiar with the plan, NBC News reported on Friday that the so-called “buffer zone” would be an as-yet undetermined “large demilitarized area” within Ukraine.
The United States would reportedly “take the lead in watching the buffer zone” because American drone and satellite capabilities give the U.S. a leg up in surveillance matters but the monitoring effort would also involve “other countries” with which the U.S. would coordinate.
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US could take lead in Ukraine ‘buffer zone’ to protect from future Russian attacks
'I just have no more words left', says Kyiv resident after drone strike
Sunday 7 September 2025 17:00 , Holly EvansDirect drone hits struck a nine-storey residential building in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district and a four-storey residential building in Darnytskyi district.
"I just have no more words left to express what I feel towards Russia," said Olha, a 77-year-old Kyiv resident whose apartment was damaged. She did not give her last name.
"Although I'm an ethnic Russian myself, from outside Moscow. And I've never thought my people would be capable of this."
Zelensky condemns 'ruthless attack' as strikes kill four people
Sunday 7 September 2025 16:29 , Rebecca WhittakerPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the wave of Russian strikes across the country that has killed four people and left more than 44 injured.
“Tragically, across Ukraine four people have been killed and more than 44 injured. Our first responders and emergency services are still dealing with the aftermath of the attack around the country,” he said in a post on X.
Thank you for your support, Mr President.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 7, 2025
Today, I spoke with Emmanuel and we discussed last night’s ruthless Russian air attack.
Tragically, across Ukraine four people have been killed and more than 44 injured. Our first responders and emergency services are still dealing with… https://t.co/4uWvzBkz1S
Mike Pence has ‘no doubt’ Russia will attack Nato country if successful in Ukraine
Sunday 7 September 2025 16:00 , Holly EvansMike Pence has ‘no doubt’ Russia will attack Nato country if successful in Ukraine
Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia
Sunday 7 September 2025 15:00 , Holly EvansNearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred to Russia since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in 2022, and subjected to military training, sexual violence and detention in camps, according to a new report.
The report, based on 200 documented cases of recently returned children and young people, found that 41 per cent were forced to take part in weapons training or join paramilitary youth movements such as Yunarmiya.
Another 39 per cent experienced forced displacement to far-flung locations in Russia, Crimea or Belarus, with 17 per cent detained in filtration camps or police stations and 10 per cent subjected to torture or cruel treatment.
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Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia
Ukraine says it attacked Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia's Bryansk
Sunday 7 September 2025 14:28 , Holly EvansUkraine attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia's Bryansk region, inflicting "comprehensive fire damage", the commander of its drone forces, Robert Brovdi, said on messaging app Telegram on Sunday.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia.
The transit pipeline delivers Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, which continue to buy energy supplies from Russia, even after other European Union nations cut ties following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
A spokesperson for Hungarian refiner MOL said that crude oil deliveries to the country were running on schedule.
Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Sakova said in a Facebook post that oil supplies to Slovakia were unaffected.
Kyiv says its strikes on Russian energy targets, in response to Moscow's continued attacks on Ukraine, aim to undermine the adversary's overall war effort.
Ukraine's Zelensky speaks with France's Macron after Russian air strike
Sunday 7 September 2025 13:46 , Holly EvansPresident Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron after Russia's biggest wartime air strike on Ukraine.
"We coordinated our diplomatic efforts, next steps, and contacts with partners to ensure an appropriate response," Zelensky said on the Telegram app.
Mass mortuaries, forensics and rare co-operation with Russia: The agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s war dead
Sunday 7 September 2025 13:20 , Holly EvansUkrainians in forensics suits unloading thousands of bodies of their fallen countrymen from refrigerated vehicles makes for a depressing spectacle.
But in the three and a half year long war between Russia and Ukraine, the repatriation of the dead might be one of the rare, all-too-brief moments of co-operation between the two warring countries.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, has a caseload of 154,200 people missing from both sides of the frontline as of August, whose fate or whereabouts remain unknown. It is expected it will take decades for families to receive answers about their loved ones.
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Inside the agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s thousands of war dead
Starmer says Putin 'believes he can act with impunity' after Kyiv strikes
Sunday 7 September 2025 12:55 , Holly EvansSir Keir Starmer said Russia’s “cowardly” strikes on Kyiv show that Vladimir Putin “believes he can act with impunity” and is not serious about peace.
The Prime Minister said in a statement: “I’m appalled by the latest brutal overnight assault on Kyiv and across Ukraine, which killed civilians and hit infrastructure. For the first time, the heart of Ukraine’s civilian government was damaged.
“These cowardly strikes show that Putin believes he can act with impunity. He is not serious about peace.
“Now, more than ever, we must stand firm in our support for Ukraine and its sovereignty.”
Hopes for peace talks wane as Russia strikes Kyiv
Sunday 7 September 2025 12:34 , Holly EvansSunday's attack is the second mass Russian drone and missile attack to target Kyiv in the span of two weeks, as hopes for peace talks wane.
The attack comes after European leaders pressed Russian leader Vladimir Putin to work to end the war after 26 of Ukraine's allies pledged to deploy troops as a "reassurance force" for the war-torn country once the fighting ends.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is ready to meet Putin to negotiate a peace agreement, and has urged U.S. President Donald Trump to put punishing sanctions on Russia to push it to end the war.
Zelensky calls for more sanctions after Russia's 'vile strikes'
Sunday 7 September 2025 12:01 , Holly EvansUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned Russia’s latest attacks, saying: "Such killings now, when real diplomacy could have started long ago, are a deliberate crime and a prolongation of the war.”
He called for sanctions on Russia and for strengthening Ukraine's air defenses.
"Every additional (air defence) system saves civilians from these vile strikes. The world can force the Kremlin criminals to stop killing; only political will is needed," Zelenskyy said.
Since last night, work has been ongoing to eliminate the consequences of Russian strikes – more than 800 drones, 13 missiles, including 4 ballistic. According to preliminary information, several drones crossed the border of Ukraine and Belarus.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 7, 2025
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Tanker carrying sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG leaves Chinese port
Sunday 7 September 2025 11:22 , Holly EvansA tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project has departed from a Chinese port, shiptracking data showed, a day after it berthed there.
Sunday's LSEG data indicated that the Russian Voskhod LNG tanker was sailing southwards after leaving anchor at an LNG terminal in the port of Tieshan in China's southwestern region of Guangxi.
The Russian-flagged tanker, with a cargo of 150,000 cubic metres of LNG, was loaded up at the Arctic LNG 2 facility in Gydan in northern Siberia on July 19, LSEG data showed.
The cargo is the second from the sanctioned project to dock in China after sanctioned tanker Arctic Mulan arrived at the Beihai LNG terminal in late August. Arctic Mulan's cargo was the first from Arctic LNG to reach an end-user since it started up last year.
Russia says it struck Ukrainian military targets with drones, missiles and aircraft
Sunday 7 September 2025 11:00 , Holly EvansRussia said on Sunday that it had used aircraft, drones, missiles and artillery to strike Ukrainian armaments factories, transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army, airfields and arsenals.
Ukrainian officials said that Russia's largest overnight air attack of the war set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead.
"Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery... have damaged targets in the military-industrial complex and the transport infrastructure of Ukraine used in the interests of the Ukraine Armed Forces," the Russian defence ministry said.
It also said its forces had struck drone plants, storage and launch facilities for long-range drones, arsenals, airfields, radar stations and places where Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries gathered.
The ministry said that its troops had taken control of the village of Khoroshe in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.
It also said that Russian air defences had shot down three guided air bombs, three HIMARS rockets and 210 drones.
Russia says it captured village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region
Sunday 7 September 2025 10:33 , Holly EvansThe Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday that its troops had taken control of the village of Khoroshe in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian forces carried out strikes on the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and transport infrastructure facilities, as well as military airfields in Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported, citing the defence ministry.
Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports.
Ukraine says it attacked Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia
Sunday 7 September 2025 10:01 , Alisha Rahaman SarkarUkraine attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia's Bryansk region, inflicting "comprehensive fire damage", said Robert Brovdi, the commander of its drone forces.
The transit pipeline delivers Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, which continue to buy energy supplies from Russia, even after other European Union nations cut ties following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
A spokesperson for Hungarian refiner MOL said that crude oil deliveries to the country were running on schedule.
Kyiv says its strikes on Russian energy targets, in response to Moscow's continued attacks on Ukraine, aim to undermine the adversary's overall war effort.
Firefighter helicopters deployed to douse flames
Sunday 7 September 2025 09:58 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
Record Russian drone and missile attack kills at least 11 - report
Sunday 7 September 2025 09:37 , Alisha Rahaman SarkarThe record Russian drone and missile attack on eight cities across Ukraine overnight has killed at least 11 people and injured 68 others, according to the Kyiv Independent, which cited local authorities.
The agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s war dead
Sunday 7 September 2025 09:35 , Alisha Rahaman SarkarBryony Gooch speaks to a forensic specialist about the ongoing work to identify bodies in Ukraine after Moscow agreed to return thousands of the fallen.
Inside the agonising task of identifying Ukraine’s thousands of war dead
Mother 'thrown into street' by power of Russian airstrike
Sunday 7 September 2025 09:25 , Alisha Rahaman SarkarA person living in one of the Kyiv neighbourhoods targeted in this morning's airstrikes told the Kyiv Independent that a young woman who died was living on the sixth floor.
The young mother and her three-month-old child were killed in the overnight Russian attack, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's city administration.
"She was thrown out onto the street by the blast wave," said Inna, a resident of a building next to one that was struck."She was found under the slab of the building at 5am [local time]. The child was also found dead."
An elderly woman has also died in a shelter in the Darnytskyi district during the attack, authorities said.
Watch: Kyiv government building hit as smoke rises following mass Russian attack
Sunday 7 September 2025 08:49 , Alisha Rahaman SarkarFootage shows smoke rising from the roof of Kyiv’s cabinet of ministers building, following the attack today, which involved over 800 drones and missiles.
Ukraine's prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on Facebook: “For the first time, the Government building, roof and upper floors have been damaged due to an enemy attack. Rescuers are extinguishing the fire.”
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Kyiv government building hit as smoke rises following mass Russian attack
