Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the death toll from a Russian strike on an ammunition warehouse in the village of Myla in the Bucha district of Kyiv region has risen to 38, with four more people still missing and search efforts ongoing. Twenty people were wounded, including two children.
The strike took place on the night of August 29. A drone attack triggered multiple explosions and a large fire at the warehouse. According to Ukraine's State Emergency Service, most of the dead were residents of a nursing home located near the warehouse. Fifty residential buildings were damaged, and 381 people, including 59 children, were evacuated from the village. The Kyiv–Chop highway was closed.
Rescuers continue working at the site. Most fires have been extinguished, and State Emergency Service pyrotechnic units are locating and defusing explosive devices. Zelensky said the scale of contamination in the area is significant.
Zelensky demanded that those responsible for allowing the ammunition warehouse to be located near residential buildings be held accountable. "There are norms: ammunition cannot be near homes or other residential buildings," he said. Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has launched a pre-trial investigation under an article on official negligence. The investigation will check the legality of the placement and storage of explosive items on the enterprise's territory. Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi called the incident criminal negligence.
Zelensky also said that over the past week, Russian forces used nearly 2,000 attack drones, more than 1,600 aerial bombs, and 31 missiles of various types against Ukraine, including a North Korean ballistic missile. In terms of civilian casualties, this is one of the deadliest Russian aerial attacks on the Kyiv region since the start of the war. August 30 has been declared a day of mourning in the Kyiv region for those killed in Myla.