You're listening to the BBC World Service. This is Newsour with me, Gary O'Donohue. We begin today in Ukraine, where Russia has launched its largest aerial bombardment of the war against Ukraine early on Sunday, firing more than 800 drones and missiles.

The attack has killed at least three people in the capital, including an infant.

It also hit a government compound for the first time,

with the cabinet of ministers' building seeing extensive damage to its roof and upper floors.

A BBC cameraman captured the moment the bomb struck.

Smoke could be seen billowing across the night sky with helicopters attempting to douse the flames.

More than 20 houses and a kindergarten were also damaged in Zaporizia.

President Zelensky said there was also fatalities in Sumi and Chernev regions.

He described the attacks as conscious crimes and a prolongation of the war.

Well, I'm joined on the line now by our correspondent Sarah Rainsford, who's in Kiev.

Sarah, what's the latest on the casualties?

Well, we've just come back from a block of flats in Kiev, one of the residential areas that was

hit by drones overnight. And I've been speaking to people there standing amongst the ruins

of their block of flats. And they've been telling me about waking up to multiple explosions

this morning. The whole of one entranceway of the block of flats is blackened. There's a

massive hole in the side of the building. And that is where a young woman and her two-month-old

baby boy were killed this morning in their home. I was speaking to people who knew her.

They say that she'd only just moved in recently with her family and that

her husband is seriously injured and being treated in hospital. So lots of people very upset,

very shocked that their building had come under attack. But of course, these scenes are becoming

increasingly familiar across Ukraine because Russia has been escalating

its attacks in recent weeks. And what happened overnight and early this morning was that

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