At least 37 dead and hundreds evacuated after strike on Kyiv weapons depot
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- Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military munitions depot in the village of Myla (Bucha district) on Friday night, with Russia's MoD saying it held components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range drones, and the resulting secondary detonations killed 37 and injured 42 including four children.
- The blast damaged roughly 130 homes and hit a nearby care home for the elderly and disabled, with about 400 people evacuated and a rescue operation still underway Saturday, according to regional head Tymur Tkachenko.
- Zelensky called the decision to store explosives in a populated village "absolutely unacceptable," announced criminal proceedings for official negligence, and confirmed the depot had been operated by Ukraine's armed forces — the second such incident after a July depot blast in Vyshneve killed nine.
- Prime Minister Sergiy Koretsky said making the same mistake "in the fifth year of the full-scale invasion is criminal negligence" and demanded "severe punishment" for those responsible, while the prosecutor general opened a review into the legality of placing explosive materials near residential buildings.
- Residents like 61-year-old Borys Daniyluk and 45-year-old Liubov Pavlenko, whose home sits about 200m from the warehouse, questioned why "ammunition and weapons" replaced what had been a food-storage site so close to a populated village, with Pavlenko's home now structurally compromised.
- Separate Russian strikes overnight killed a 14-year-old in Boryspil district and a two-year-old in Kyiv's Obolonskyi district, with five more injured in Saturday morning capital strikes; Ukraine's army said it shot down 233 Russian drones overnight, while in Russia, Ozon suspended two logistics centers in the Krasnodar region after Ukrainian drone hits.
Why it matters: This is the second munitions-depot blast near Kyiv since July's Vyshneve explosion killed nine, meaning Ukrainian officials had a documented warning and failed to relocate stockpiles — Zelensky's criminal-negligence proceedings and Koretsky's call for "severe punishment" put that internal accountability squarely on the table alongside the Russian attack itself.
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