Death toll rises to 38 as Zelensky blasts 'terrible negligence' over Kyiv weapons depot that 'DEFINITELY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE'
Volodymyr Zelensky launched criminal proceedings against Ukrainian officials after Friday night's strike revealed ammunition had been illegally stored beside residential properties in Myla, killing 37 people.Russia's defence ministry boasted the overnight barrage was "massive," hitting ports, grain storage, energy sites and industrial infrastructure with ballistic missiles and 258 drones.Among the 37 people killed in the Myla strike were four children, with a further 42 people injured in the chain of explosions.Shells, mines and drones stored in the warehouse detonated, engulfing at least 50 residential buildings in fire — including a care home — and forcing 381 residents to evacuate.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turned his fury on his own officials after the death toll from Friday night's Russian drone strike on a munitions depot in the village of Myla, near Kyiv, climbed to 38, with 42 people wounded including four children. The depot held shells, mines and drones, and triggered massive secondary explosions that damaged around 130 homes, a care home for the elderly and disabled, and forced nearly 400 residents to evacuate. Ukraine's prosecutor general has opened a criminal investigation into suspected official negligence, focusing on whether storing explosives so close to a civilian population was lawful. Among the dead was Taras Didych, head of the Dmytrivka community, who was killed after arriving at the scene among the first responders.
