Russian air strikes become more rabbit and greater, hitting only the heart of Ukraine

Ukraine showed fragments of the rocket reporters, which is said to hit a key government building in Kiev this weekend, identifying it as a Russian rocket of the askander.

The officials here now believe that the building was intentionally struck in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Vladimir Putin’s response to Donald Trump’s peaceful effort was a clear escalation in Russian attacks.

But they are not only aimed at the Ukrainian capital.

In the East Donbass region, more than 20 civilians were killed by a Russian bomb on Tuesday as they were queued to raise their pensions.

Volodimir Zelenski condemned the strike on the village of Yarova as a “savage” and again called the allies of Ukraine to increase the pressure on Moscow by sanctions.

His service told him that some components of the US and European weapons still reach Russia, including the Iskander missile. Moscow has already replaced the others with its own production.

“Strong actions are needed for Russia to stop bearing death,” writes the President of Ukraine.

Our team was shooting on Sunday morning during Central Kyiv’s Air Raid and captured the moment the ministers’ office was struck. The images appear to be a direct stroke: a rocket suddenly curves down, just before the explosion.

There is no indication that it is trapped by air protection.

When they allowed us in the huge, Soviet era, to see the damage, the smell of burning intensified as we climbed to the top floor.

The roof and the part of the walls in the damaged area are swollen and there is a gaping hole in the floor.

Everywhere, cut cables hang from what remains from any ceiling.

The rocket – packed with more than 100 kg (220 pounds) explosives – does not detonate, so the damage is limited to three floors. But it’s still significant.

We saw fragments of this rocket, now they are collected as evidence: robbed metal pieces, some with Cyrillic inscriptions on them, gathered on a bunch.

Weapons experts we consulted agree that it looks like a Russian cruise rocket and say that the damage is in line with a striking request, but not exploding.

“Sometimes fuses don’t work and missiles just don’t explode. (This) can happen with many different systems,” I told me Fabian Hinz, an expert on rocket and drones at the International Institute for Strategic Research in Berlin.

“I think she hit the building,” confirmed military analyst Alexander Musienko here in Kyiv.

“This rocket has high speed and low altitude. It is really difficult to see the radar. And of course, we still don’t have enough air defense systems like (American) patriots, for example, which we can use to take them down.”

In KYIV, the increase in early morning attacks is obvious: they have become more common -but the most important thing are greater in scale. Russia is now launching hundreds of drones at a time, deliberately draining Ukraine’s resources.

That is why Zelenski is constantly calling for more rockets: someone away from Kiev may sound as if he was stuck in repetition. But for the people here it may be the difference between life and death.

The strikes of Russia are not only symbolic, on empty government buildings. They also regularly hit people’s homes, as we have seen again this week.

“Sometimes many of these drones are baits – no explosives – just to weaken our air defense systems,” explained G -n Musiyenko.

“We’ve never seen such attacks ever in our history. Of course, it’s a threat.”

Closer to the front line, the tactics are different: deadly sliding bombs arrive almost without warning.

In Yarova, those killed this time were adults. They are the people who are the most unochoic or the least can leave their homes, even when the fighting moves again. The village was occupied by the Russians at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of 2022, after which it was later released from Ukrainian troops.

At least 24 people who have survived everything they are now dead.

The images from the scene show that their bodies extend to the ground and a broken van for a post office that delivered pensions. He parked under a cover tree, hoping not to be seen – but the bomb hit anyway.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrius Sibiha called it a “barbaric” strike from Russia and a “disgusting crime” against the people and a region that Putin said it was necessary to rescue when ordered the invasion.

“We urge the world to talk and act immediately,” Sibiha said.

But Ukraine wants more than condemnation. It still requires action against the Russian economy and the defense sector there.

Vladislav Vlasuk, Zelenski’s adviser, told me that the sanctions imposed so far had changed.

Ukrainian teams are exploring the remains of rockets and drones fired from Russia since 2022, he said, and the percentage of components created by the Western state has shrunk.

But it has not yet been eliminated.

“There are less western parts, that’s good,” explained G -n Vlasiuk. “But the bad thing is that the number of Russian units has increased, which means that Russia is producing things that they could not do before, including microchips.”

Increased cooperation with China in drone production also makes them far more difficult to traffic, he said.

This may be what allowed Russia to hit the main government building in Kiev for the first time – in the most guarded quarter of this city.

“It’s scary that they hit the center,” Alion said on Tuesday, pushing her baby in a stroller not far from the ministers’ office.

“There have always been drones here,” her husband added. “They just flew from above and now they can hit.”