NATO scrambles jets amid Russia's largest ever attack on Ukraine

Russia launched 823 drones and missiles overnight, Kyiv said.

LONDON -- Ukraine's cabinet building in Kyiv was among the targets of Russia's largest drone and missile attack of the war overnight into Sunday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Ukraine's air force said in a post to Telegram that Russia launched 810 drones and 13 missiles into the country in the latest barrage, of which 747 drones and four missiles were shot down. Nine missiles and 54 drones impacted across 33 locations, the air force said.

The total of 823 munitions made the attack Russia's largest to date, surpassing the 741 munitions reported by the air force on July 9.

Zelenskyy said at least two people had been killed in the attack, which saw impacts reported in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Kremenchuk and Odesa regions.

This handout photograph posted on Sept. 7, 2025 on the official Telegram channel of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko shows rescue personnel working to extinguish a fire at the Ukrainian government building in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Handout/Official Telegram channel of Ukr

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Telegram that the attack damaged the "roof and upper floors" of the cabinet building located in the historic Pecherskyi district in the center of the city, which is home to many government buildings.

"Rescuers are extinguishing the fire," Svyrydenko wrote. "I thank them for their work. We will restore the buildings. But lost lives cannot be returned. The enemy terrorizes and kills our people across the country every day."

Both the prime minister and president urged an immediate response from the international community and more military assistance for Kyiv.

"Such killings now, when real diplomacy could have started long ago, are a deliberate crime and a prolongation of the war," Zelenskyy wrote.

Ukrainian defenders down a Russian missile as smoke rises from the city during a Russian missile strike on in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 7, 2025.

"It has been repeatedly stated in Washington that there will be sanctions for refusal to talk. We must implement everything agreed upon in Paris," the president added, referring to last week's meeting with European leaders and virtual talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the French capital.

The overnight barrage prompted the scrambling of NATO fighter jets in Poland, the country's Armed Forces Operational Command wrote on X.

"Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace and ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have reached a state of maximum readiness," the command said. The alert last for around three hours.

Russia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said its forces shot down 69 Ukrainian drones overnight.