Watch: Russia Launches Enormous Air Attack on Ukraine

There has been a serious escalation in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Over Saturday night and into early Sunday morning, Russia launched the biggest aerial assault yet on Ukraine. Over 400 Russian drones were launched at targets in Ukraine, including at least one government building. Russia also employed ballistic and cruise missiles in the attack. Ukraine reportedly shot down many of the drones, but some reached targets in Ukraine.

Fox News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst was on the spot:

WATCH: @TreyYingst reports from Ukraine after Russia hits Kyiv with the largest air attack since the war began. pic.twitter.com/vjLMzP4p67
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 7, 2025

Mr. Yingst reported at least three deaths in the building he appeared in front of in this report, and notes that the Russian attack targeted a Ukrainian government building for the first time.

Another report states that Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, was under an air-raid alert for 11 hours.

Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a government building in Kyiv for the first time.
An infant was among at least two people killed in drone strikes on several residential buildings in the capital, which was under an air-raid siren for 11 hours, Kyiv’s city office said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X that a total of four people had been killed across all of Ukraine Sunday and 44 had been injured.

It's unclear whether the Ukrainian government building was deliberately targeted, but whether it was or not, it remains the first time a Ukrainian government building has been struck by Russian munitions. As of this writing, it's not known if any Ukrainian government officials or employees were in the building.

Moscow’s forces launched a total of 810 drones, four ballistic missiles and nine cruise missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said. While most were shot down by air defenses, 54 drones and nine missiles hit targets across Ukraine, the air force said.
That surpasses the size of a July attack by Moscow that was previously the largest of the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.

In a more conventional conflict, one would think that an aerial attack like this would be a prelude to a planned, mass invasion, to seize territory while the enemy is still reeling. It's not at all clear that this is the case here. Russia appears to be trying to wear Ukraine down, to exhaust its resources and its people. The ground war has been more or less stagnant for some time, having deteriorated into a high-tech equivalent of the Great War.

This is becoming a war of attrition, and unfortunately for Ukraine, Russia has more young men to throw away, and Europe (and the United States) will not keep supplying Ukraine with weapons, ammunition, and supplies forever. That may well be what Russia's Tsar Vladimir I is thinking, that he may be able to wear Kyiv down and take the country by armistice rather than in battle.

Then again, it's hard to read the mind of a madman.

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President Trump is reported to be weighing further sanctions on Russia.

The odds of any kind of peace agreement in the Russo-Ukrainian War seem to be growing slimmer with each passing day.

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