Overview
- A Russian drone hit an ammunition warehouse in the village of Myla on Aug. 28, triggering massive secondary detonations that killed 38 people, left four missing and injured dozens as emergency teams worked to extinguish fires and clear unexploded ordnance.
- Authorities evacuated hundreds, reported heavy damage to more than 130 homes and a care facility, and said local figures including a municipal head and children were among the dead and wounded.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Prosecutor General have opened criminal investigations and ordered audits into how explosives were stored so close to residential areas after officials called the placement negligent.
- Ukraine says Russia has launched waves of mostly jet‑powered attack drones over several days that are straining interceptor stocks and forcing near‑constant air‑raid alerts that disrupt transport, logistics and daily life in Kyiv.
- Moscow’s Defence Ministry warned of planned “massive strikes” on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian economic targets, raising risks to power supplies this coming winter and underscoring reciprocal targeting of logistics and energy sites.