Dozens dead after Russian drone strike hits warehouse
At least 27 people have died after a Russian drone struck a depot near Kyiv's western suburbs overnight, sparking a huge fire and explosions, authorities said Saturday. FRANCE 24's Emmanuelle Chaze reports.
A Russian drone strike on a warehouse near Kyiv late on August 28 has killed at least 27 people, with the death toll possibly not being final, according to Kyiv region governor Tymur Tkachenko. The strike sparked a major fire and explosions at the warehouse in the Bucha district, close to the Ukrainian capital, forcing more than 370 people to evacuate the region. Among those killed was Taras Didych, head of the Dmytrivka community, who was one of the first to rush to the scene to rescue people.
The warehouse was storing unknown materials, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that criminal proceedings had been opened on charges of official negligence, citing regulations that ammunition cannot be stored near homes or other residential areas. The attack also damaged at least 50 residential buildings, and a large-scale fire spread to homes and a restaurant.
The Prosecutor General's Office reported that a drone fell on or struck the grounds of an enterprise in the town of Myla, sparking a large-scale fire and detonation. The investigation will focus on the legality of the storage of explosive objects and materials on the enterprise's grounds. According to the Kyiv Independent, 42 people were injured, including four children.
Emergency services continued to extinguish fires, clear debris, and conduct search-and-rescue operations, with over 300 Ukrainian emergency service workers involved in the response.
Brief written by urgent.news from France 24, DW English (Top Stories), DW News, CBS News, Kyiv Independent — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
