At least eight killed in major missile and drone strikes on Kyiv

The aunt of a two-year-old boy who was rescued after six days under rubble in Venezuela has spoken to the BBC of her elation at being reunited with her nephew and her hopes that his parents might still be found.Kleiber Moran was pulled from the rubble of his home in Venezuela's northern La Guaira state by Jordanian rescuers early on Tuesday.Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez has described the rescue as a "source of hope for our people" as the death toll from two major earthquakes last Wednesday continues to rise.The boy's aunt, 23-year-old Andreína Sarmiento, told the BBC she would "take care of Kleiber with a mother's warmth until my sister appears, which is what we long for"."I'm praying a lot to God to give me strength because he is only two years old and I am not a mother," she said, sitting at Kleiber's bedside and holding his hand in a hospital in the capital Caracas."It hurts me a lot because my sister always used to tell me that he is my son, and now it's like she's handing him over to me and saying 'this is your son, he is your responsibility,'" she said.When a friend phoned Andreína from La Guaira to tell her of Kleiber's rescue she fell to the floor and screamed and wept, before heading to meet him.She said rescuers from the UK had also tried to reach him before the Jordanian team's efforts were successful.When the two were reunited, Kleiber looked at Andreína and immediately said "she Auntie".Andreína said Kleiber was in a "state of shock, screaming and screaming" when he arrived at the hospital. But he slept through the night and by Wednesday "he had stabilised".She said that "today he's giving me little kisses, he talks to me, he tells me where it hurts".As she spoke, Kleiber lay next to her, wrapped in a Spiderman blanket and surrounded by toys, pushing a small car around the bed. He was in a ward with other children who had also survived the earthquakes."He doesn't even have a single fracture. Everything is very good. All he has are some scratches here on his arms and on his legs, but nothing more," Andreína told the BBC with a broad smile.But while she is elated at being reunited with her nephew, Andreína said "it hurts because I can't find my sister".She said she and 31-year-old Ana Luz were extremely close and would talk every day on video calls. Her sister always had Kleiber by her side."Wherever she went, her son went too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, she would please him. If she didn't have money, she would call me: 'Kleiber wants this' or 'he's missing this,'" Andreína said."She is my older sister and I always trusted her and could tell her my problems and whenever I spoke to her on a video call, the child was by her side."Andreína said she was certain that her sister would have been next to Kleiber in the rubble.As she sat with her nephew in hospital, desperate search and rescue efforts were continuing after the earthquakes.Some 2,295 deaths have been officially recorded, but the final toll is expected to be many times higher. Tens of thousands have been reported missing, and the United Nations has said it is procuring 10,000 body bags for the country.Andreína said she had not lost hope that Kleiber's parents would be rescued."Just as they found my nephew, I have faith that they are going to find my sister and my brother-in-law," she said.Looking affectionately at Kleiber, she said she believed "he has a purpose in the world"."When this child grows up, God willing, this will be his story," she said.Additional reporting by Euridice Ledezma

9 minutes agoIan AikmanAndrew Kravchenko / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko (right), visited the site of the attack as rescue teams worked on ThursdayAt least four people have been killed and children are among dozens wounded after Russia launched a massive wave of drone and missile strikes against Ukraine overnight, officials have said.Three of the dead were pulled from the rubble of a partially destroyed apartment building in Kyiv, police said, where a rescue operation is under way after the capital was bombarded.At least 44 people have been injured, including two children, the city's mayor said. Twenty-one of those are being treated in hospital, including one child.It marks the third day in a row Ukraine has reported deaths, as Moscow ramps up its assault after a three-day ceasefire expired on Monday.The overnight barrage saw more than 670 drones and 56 missiles launched across the country, President Volodomyr Zelensky said. This is among the largest attacks Russia has mounted since the start of its full-scale invasion in 2022.In the capital, a search and rescue operation began early Thursday to look for people under the rubble of a nine-storey high-rise apartment block, which had been hit overnight.Police said two men, aged 21 and 30, and a woman, who has not yet been identified, were found dead in the rubble of the building's destroyed entrance. The fourth victim was a man who died in hospital, the city's police added. He had been at a petrol station which came under attack.Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klychko, who visited the damaged building, said 18 apartments had been destroyed. He also said the attack had disrupted the city's water supply.More than 1,500 rescuers and police officers are working in the aftermath of Russia's overnight attacks, almost 600 of them in Kyiv, Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko said.Dozens of people have been recovered from the damaged building and more than 10 people are thought to be missing, he said in a statement, with canine units involved in the search.Teams say they have moved more than 20 cubic metres of debris and evacuated five damaged vehicles.The strikes also damaged other residential buildings, a school, a veterinary clinic and other infrastructure in Kyiv, according to Zelensky.The large-scale attack saw Russian drones fly across much of Ukraine, with the regions of Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Odesa also coming under fire, Prime Minister Svyrydenko said."Ukraine needs help in strengthening its air defense," she wrote on social media. "This is the only way to save our people and our cities."Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for the "barbaric attack", which he said showed Moscow was pursuing "aggression and terror" over peace.He noted the attack had taken place during a crucial summit between US President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping, and urged the two leaders to exert pressure on Russia. "I am certain that the leaders of the United States and China have enough leverage over Moscow to tell Putin to finally end the war," he said.ReutersHundreds of responders have been involved in rescue operations across UkraineThe latest attacks came shortly after a three-day, US-brokered ceasefire expired late on Monday.Both Russia and Ukraine reported multiple violations during the truce - mostly along the vast frontline - but no large aerial attacks. Russia resumed its attacks on Tuesday, killing nine people.Six more people were killed in another major attack on Wednesday, which Ukraine's saw 892 drones launched from Russia.On Thursday morning, Zelensky said a total of more than 1,560 Russian drones had targeted Ukrainian cities since Tuesday night. He described Russia's huge assault as "definitely not the actions of those who believe the war is coming to an end", and urged Ukraine's allies not to remain silent.In a separate development in Kyiv, a court has ordered 60 days' pretrial detention f