At least 27 people were killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse in the Bucha district outside Kyiv overnight and set off huge explosions and a major fire. Kyiv regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said 42 people were injured and more than 380 were being evacuated from the strike area on Saturday.
Tkachenko said, “Unfortunately, as things stand, 27 people are known to have died. And this figure may not be final,” while Ukrainian officials said at least 50 residential buildings had been damaged. Taras Didych, the mayor of the village of Dmytrivska, was among the dead.
Bucha district fire zone
The strike hit a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs that was storing munitions, and the fire spread to homes and a restaurant. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the warehouse had been struck in the village of Myla and described the blast as “followed by a detonation.” He also said, “There are regulations in place – ammunition cannot be stored near homes or other residential areas.”
People in the Bucha district spent Saturday dealing with damage to homes, evacuations, and injuries as crews moved residents away from the burned area. The scale of the evacuation — more than 380 people — points to a wider safety perimeter than a single building failure, because the fire and explosions reached nearby housing.
Prosecutors open negligence case
Ukrainian prosecutors said the warehouse appeared to have been storing explosive objects and that they were opening an investigation into criminal negligence. That adds a second track to the story: not only the attack itself, but whether the site was legally and safely used for explosives near homes.
In July, Sergii Koretskyi said a previous deadly attack in Vyshneve near Kyiv had hit a munitions depot, and he wrote that a “lesson” had not been learned. On Telegram, he said, “In the fifth year of the full-scale invasion, making the same mistakes over and over is criminal negligence.”
Late Friday and early Saturday, Russia launched at least two missiles and 267 drones at Ukraine, and separate Russian attacks early on Saturday killed a 14-year-old girl in Boryspil and one person in Odesa. The immediate question in Kyiv is what exactly was stored at the warehouse and who was responsible for its placement and safety compliance, because that will shape the negligence case as prosecutors move forward.
