Welcome to the News Hour. It is a pivotal moment in Ukraine. Kiev announced today it'll hold

another round of peace talks with Russia on Wednesday, the first such meeting in seven weeks.

And NATO leaders met today to try and answer Ukraine's desperate call for more weapons, as Moscow

launched one of its largest ever aerial assaults. Here's Nick Schiffen with more.

In Ukraine's capital today, damage, destruction, and more death.

It's days like this where nowhere feels safe.

Not the Kiev apartment building hit by a Russian drone.

The school kids' bedroom inside, burnt black. Not the Kiev apartment building hit by a Russian drone. The school kids' bedroom

inside, burnt black. Not the nearby kindergarten engulfed in flames. Not the bomb shelter,

otherwise known as the metro, where a drone hit at the entrance and filled the tunnel built

to withstand nuclear blasts with smoke.

The metro usually where Ukrainians spend the night to protect their children.

But these days there is precious little protection.

Forty-six-year-old Vadim Volkov survived where his apartment did not.

I can't even describe the emotions I had when the whole apartment was destroyed.

I was in shock. I'm not the only one.

There are so many people who have lost their homes.

Lost their homes, thanks largely to the nightly, screaming across the sky that leads to the inevitable.

Dron strikes.

Overnight, Ukraine says Russia launched more than 420.

The UN says Russia last month fired 10 times the number of drones than it did one year

ago.

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