Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered an investigation into official negligence after a Russian drone strike on an ammunition warehouse in the village of Myla killed 37 people. The Friday night attack in the Bucha district sparked secondary explosions and fires that spread to nearby buildings, including a care home for the elderly and people with disabilities. The incident occurred during a three-day period of intensified Russian strikes across the Kyiv region.
President Zelensky stated that criminal proceedings have been opened because regulations prohibit storing ammunition near residential areas. In a separate incident on Saturday, regional official Oleksandr Prokudin reported that Russian strikes in the Kherson region killed two people and wounded 27 others, including a child. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry announced a successful test of a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile, launched from the Arkhangelsk region to the Kura test site in Kamchatka, which the ministry stated has a range exceeding 6,700 kilometers.
The Myla warehouse strike resulted in the deaths of 34 residents at the care facility, according to local military administration head Tymur Tkachenko. Russian officials claimed the site was used to store drone components, while Ukrainian officials identified it as a storage facility for shells, mines, and other ammunition. Residents reported they were unaware that explosives were being kept in the area until the detonations began around 8:00 p.m. local time. Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi compared the event to a July incident in Vyshneve where 22 people died under similar circumstances involving stored munitions.
The incident directly affects the safety of Ukrainian civilians living near military logistics sites, specifically the residents of the Myla care home. The scale of the event involves 37 deaths and at least 50 damaged residential buildings, marking it as the deadliest single attack in the capital region this year.
The Ukrainian government is pursuing criminal charges for official negligence. Residents who previously assumed nearby warehouses were for commercial or non-explosive use now face uncertainty. In Kherson, regional head Oleksandr Prokudin urged tens of thousands to move due to threats to critical infrastructure and the possibility of power and heating outages.
The event occurs in the fifth year of the full-scale invasion, with Prime Minister Koretskyi publicly criticizing the repetition of errors seen in previous months. What happens next includes the progression of the negligence investigation and the continuation of air-raid alerts in Kyiv, which remained frequent as of August 30. No specific court dates for the negligence charges were reported.