Smoke rises over Ukraine’s capital Kyiv after Russian strikes, August 29, 2026 (Reuters)
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At least 39 people were murdered, including two children, and 50 injured by Russian strikes on and near Kyiv on Saturday.
Of the victims, 37 were slain when the Russians hit a depot, owned by the Ukrainian military, which stored shells, drones, and other munitions. At least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, were damaged in the attack on Myla, 30 km (19 miles) west of Kyiv. Almost 400 people were evacuated.
A 14-year-old girl was killed in the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region. In the morning, a 2-year-old girl was slain in a Russian attack on Kyiv’s Obolonskyi district, and eight people were injured.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted about the strike on the depot:
The first impact was on a place where ammunition was being stored that absolutely should not have been there – a depot of the defence forces. [There was] detonation of shells, mines, other munitions and drones on a significant scale.
Zelensky said criminal proceedings have been opened on charges of official negligence: “There are regulations in place – ammunition cannot be stored near homes or other residential areas.”
The first impact was on a place where ammunition was being stored that absolutely should not have been there – a depot of the defence forces. [There was] detonation of shells, mines, other munitions and drones on a significant scale.
Zelensky said criminal proceedings have been opened on charges of official negligence: “There are regulations in place – ammunition cannot be stored near homes or other residential areas.”
Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi noted that mistakes had not been learned from a deadly strike on a munitions depot in Vyshneve,near Kyiv in July.
An investigation into that incident, in which 22 people were killed, revealed serious failings on the part of a state-owned company which did not comply with regulations on the proximity of residential buildings.
Resident Stefania Torska said of Saturday’s attacks:
As my grandson later described it, it looked like lava — just fire, an enormous mass of flames rising high into the air. I realized that if I stayed where I was, it would fall on me and I would burn alive. I started running. I do not know how I managed to run so quickly, but the fire only caught up with me when I had almost reached my own gate.
