Russia blows up munitions depot in Kyiv Oblast
A Russian drone strike hit a warehouse facility near Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, triggering a fire and long series of explosions on Aug. 28.
On August 28, a Russian drone strike targeted a warehouse facility near Bucha, located in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. The attack ignited a fire and set off a series of explosions. Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the Kyiv regional administration, later confirmed eyewitness accounts shared on social media. In response to the incident, authorities implemented a temporary traffic restriction on the M-06 Kyiv-Chop highway, affecting both directions between markers 15 and 32.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergei Korsyttskyi has come close to confirming that the facility was used for storing munitions. He expressed frustration in a Telegram post, stating that Ukraine cannot afford to repeat the same mistakes, emphasizing the need for severe punishment of all responsible parties to prevent such incidents in the ongoing fifth year of the full-scale war.
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