A Russian drone strike on a Kyiv warehouse has killed at least 37 people and forced almost 400 to evacuate, making it the deadliest single attack on Ukraine so far this year, according to regional officials. The strike hit the village of Myla in the Bucha district late on Friday, triggering secondary explosions and damaging residential buildings and a care home nearby.
According to Fox 5 San Diego, the death toll of 37 surpassed the 31 killed in a 2 July strike on Kyiv, which had previously been the war’s deadliest attack of 2026. The latest figures confirm the Myla strike as a new and grim benchmark in the conflict.
Investigators probe ammunition storage near homes
Regional head Tymur Tkachenko said 42 people were injured, including four children, with a rescue operation still under way on Saturday. More than 300 emergency service personnel were deployed to the site. A care home for elderly people and people with disabilities was among the properties damaged.
Prosecutors opened an investigation into the incident, with the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general reviewing the ‘legality of the placement and storage of explosive objects and materials’ near residential buildings. The office said the ‘actions of officials who made the relevant decisions’ would also be examined. Tkachenko confirmed that ‘criminal proceedings have been opened on charges of official negligence.’
President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that ammunition had been stored in an inappropriate location. Writing on X, he said: ‘Ammunition must not be stored near houses or other residential buildings. Appropriate conclusions will certainly be drawn.’ His statement came as Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed its forces had targeted ‘an ammunition depot’ in Myla which stored ‘components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles.’
Russian drone strike Kyiv warehouse part of wider overnight assault
The Myla strike was part of a broader wave of Russian attacks. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said a two-year-old child died after a Russian drone crashed in Obolonskyi. Five people, including an 18-year-old, were injured in separate strikes on the capital on Saturday morning. In the Boryspil district, a 14-year-old was killed in a further attack.
Zelensky reported overnight strikes in Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia. The Ukrainian army said it had shot down 233 Russian drones during the assault. Five people were killed across the country over the past day, according to local officials.
In Russia, local officials said two people had been killed and 25 injured in strikes on the Belgorod and Rostov regions over the same period. The Moscow-appointed governor of the occupied Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia said four people were injured after a Ukrainian strike hit a shopping centre there.
Russian online retailer Ozon said one of its logistics centres had been hit in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike, and that it had suspended operations at a second centre and evacuated staff ‘due to the danger in the area.’ Ozon’s facilities in Krasnodar, Dagestan, Stavropol and Adygea had been targeted in strikes earlier in the week, resulting in several injuries and widespread damage.
Russia and Ukraine have been intensifying attacks in recent months, with Kyiv focusing operations on Russian economic targets. Ukraine has for weeks struck sites belonging to Wildberries, describing the firm as a legitimate target because it supplied components to the military, which Moscow denies. Zelensky has indicated further accountability measures will follow the Myla investigation.
