Here is how things stand on Monday, September 8:
Fighting
Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least four people , including a one-year-old baby, and wounding 44 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The attack also set the main government building in central Kyiv on fire. It marked the first time that the building had been hit since the war began.
“Such killings now, when real diplomacy could have already begun long ago, are a deliberate crime and a prolongation of the war,” Zelenskyy said in a post on social media, issuing a new appeal to allies to strengthen Ukrainian air defences.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 810 drones and 13 missiles during the attack, which caused damage across the country, including t