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At least three people have been killed, 18 wounded, and dozens of buildings set on fire in Kyiv, including the seat of the government, following a Russian drone and missile attack in Ukraine‘s capital, according to officials and local news reports.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was initially quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that the attack early on Sunday killed an infant and a young woman, and sparked fires at several high-rise buildings in the city’s west and east.

Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s city administration, later confirmed the body of a one-year-old child was dug out of the rubble by rescuers.

Medics were called to the leafy Darnytskyi district to the east of the Dnipro River, where a four-storey apartment building caught fire from the debris of drones destroyed in the overnight attack, Klitschko added.

Drone debris also caused fires atop a 16-storey and two nine-storey buildings in the Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv’s west, he said.

Witnesses told Reuters they heard a series of explosions shaking the city, which sounded like air defence units in operation.

The Ukrainian news website Kyiv Independent also reported that an elderly woman died in a shelter in the city’s Darnytskyi district following the attack, although the cause of her death was not immediately clear.

The state emergency service confirmed at least one death in Kyiv and 18 injuries.

The attacks, which also knocked out power in the city, left smoke rising from the roof of Ukraine’s cabinet, housing the offices of its ministers.

“For the first time, the government building was damaged by an enemy attack, including the roof and upper floors,” said Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. “We will restore the buildings, but lost lives cannot be returned.”

“The world must respond to this destruction not only with words, but with actions. There is a need to strengthen sanctions pressure, primarily against Russian oil and gas,” she said.

Russia ramps up attacks on Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine have increased in recent days, even as United States President Donald Trump stepped up diplomacy to end the three-and-a-half-year war, although those efforts have not yet been successful.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 805 drones and 13 missiles at Ukraine overnight.

Tkachenko, the head of the military administration of the capital, said on Telegram that Russia was “deliberately and consciously striking civilian targets”.

Moscow did not immediately issue any comment on the attacks.

Both sides deny targeting civilians, but thousands have died in the war Russia launched with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Early on Sunday, most of Ukraine was under air raid alerts after Ukrainian air force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.

Tens of explosions shook the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, cutting power to parts of it, Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi said on Telegram.

Russian strikes on Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, in the same region, targeted transport and urban infrastructure, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the military administration, said on Telegram, but with no injuries reported.

In the southern city of Odesa, civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged, with fires breaking out in several apartment blocks, regional Governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.

Earlier, a separate Russian attack in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region killed one person and wounded several others, regional military Governor Oleh Hryhorov said on Telegram.

A Russian drone attack on Saturday evening in Zaporizhia in the southeast also wounded at least 15 people, four of whom were hospitalised, said Ivan Fedorov, the head of the military administration in the region, which is partially occupied by Russia.

Kyiv says it caused ‘comprehensive fire damage’ to Russian pipeline

Meanwhile, the commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, said it attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk region.

Brovdi posted on Telegram that “comprehensive fire damage” was inflicted on the pipeline.

The transit pipeline supplies Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.

Moscow has not commented on the Ukrainian claim.

The Silver Lion award was presented to a five-year-old Palestinian girl by Israel during its ongoing conflict in Gaza.

French-Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab placed second on Saturday behind American independent director Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother.

The movie details Hind Rajab’s true story, which was claimed by Israeli forces last year as she and her family attempted to flee Gaza City.

Real audio from Rajab’s hours-long call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, in which rescuers tried to comfort her as she lay stranded in a car with her aunt, uncle, and three cousins who had all been shot down by Israeli fire.

The two ambulance workers who attempted to save the girl also died at the scene.

The Venice Lido film received the most positive reviews, with many people predicting the movie would win after a 23-minute standing ovation at its premiere on Wednesday.

When Ben Hania presented her with her award, he claimed that Rajab’s story was tragically the story of “an entire people enduring genocide” as well as the young girl’s.

“Cinema cannot retake Hind, nor can it overthrow the atrocity she committed against her. Nothing can ever be restored, but film can preserve the voice of the voice and make it resonate across borders, according to the director.

“Her voice will keep evoking until justice is served, and until accountability is real.”

More than 64, 000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s occupation of Gaza, including more than 18, 000 children, in addition to the festival’s extensive shadow.

At the ceremony, Jarmusch, who won the coveted Golden Lion, wore a badge that read “Enough” to show his opposition to Israel’s continued siege and bombardment of Gaza.

The 72-year-old director acknowledged earlier this week that he was concerned that one of his main distributors had taken money from a business that had links to the Israeli military when he unveiled Father Mother Sister Brother.

The three-part meditation on the uneasy ties between parents and their adult children is based on Jarmusch’s winning movie, which stars Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits.

He thanked the grand jury for “appreciating our quiet film” and called Saturday’s victory an “unexpected honor.”

In other categories, Xin Zhilei won best actress for her role in the drama The Sun Rises On Us All, which explores issues of sacrifice, guilt, and unresolved feelings between estranged lovers who share a dark secret, while Italy’s Toni Servillo won best actor for his wry portrayal of a weary president nearing the end of his mandat in La Grazia.

Benny Safdie received the best director nod for The Smashing Machine, a film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the real-life mixed martial arts pioneer Mark Kerr.

Gianfranco Rosi, an Italian filmmaker, won the special jury award for his black-and-white film Below the Clouds, which explores life in Naples’ troubled southern city and is characterized by frequent earthquakes and the threat of volcanic eruptions.

One of the award-winning actors, Servillo, spoke about Gaza from the stage and praised activists on a flotilla of boats trying to “break” Israel’s hold on the island.

According to Servillo, they “have chosen to set sail with courage to Palestine and bring a sign of humanity to a place where human dignity is consistently and cruelly undermined.”

Annapurna Roy, who was the recipient of the Horizons sidebar’s best director prize led by French filmmaker Julia Ducournau, also dedicated a portion of her remarks to the Gaza conflict.

For her debut film, Songs of Forgotton Trees, about two migrant women in Mumbai, Roy, an Indian, won.

Every child is deserving of peace, freedom, and freedom, and Palestine, according to Roy. I support Palestine, “. Although I may upset my country, I have no bearing.

Maryam Touzani, the filmmaker who won the audience award at Armani Beauty’s film competition in Gaza, also brought attention to the conflict there.

How many mothers have been abandoned? she stated. How many more before this horror is over? We “refuse to lose” our humanity.

The Venice festival regularly hosts big Oscar winners, with films that have won almost 90 Oscar nominations and almost 20 in the process. It also marks the start of the awards season.

A trio of Netflix movies, Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller A House of Dynamite, Guillermo del Toro’s re-telling of Frankenstein, and Jay Kelly, a comedy-drama from Noah Baumbach, were just a few of the films that left Venice empty-handed.