Depot Strike Kills 37 Near Kyiv; Zelensky Orders Negligence Probe
At least 37 people were killed and 42 injured when a Russian drone strike detonated a weapons depot in Myla village near Kyiv, with secondary explosions of stored munitions destroying some 130 homes and damaging a care home. President Zelensky said the site “definitely shouldn’t have been there” and ordered an investigation into “terrible negligence”, promising to punish those responsible. It ranks among the deadliest single attacks of the year.
The rarest thing in this war is a Ukrainian president publicly blaming Ukrainian officials for Ukrainian deaths, and Mr Zelensky’s fury is the story’s second layer: munitions warehoused among homes turned one drone into a chain of detonations that did Russia’s work for it. The candour is strategic as well as moral — corruption and negligence are the vulnerabilities Washington watches most closely, and being seen to punish them is part of keeping the weapons flowing. The grimmer backdrop is a warning from Kyiv that Russia may be preparing a new ground assault on the capital, which would explain both the depot’s location and the urgency of dispersal. Watch the investigation’s findings — and whether the warning about Kyiv hardens into movement.