Russian drone strike on Kyiv-region warehouse kills 27 as overnight barrage hits five oblasts
A Russian drone strike on a warehouse in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region killed at least 27 people and forced almost 400 evacuations in the early hours of Saturday, regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said, with rescue teams still searching for survivors amid a series of secondary explosions. According to the BBC, 42 others were injured, including four children, and a 14-year-old was killed in a separate strike in the nearby Boryspil district.
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Sat, 29 August 2026 · 2 min read
A Russian drone strike on a warehouse in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region killed at least 27 people and forced almost 400 evacuations in the early hours of Saturday, regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said, with rescue teams still searching for survivors amid a series of secondary explosions. According to the BBC, 42 others were injured, including four children, and a 14-year-old was killed in a separate strike in the nearby Boryspil district.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 300 emergency responders had been deployed and announced an investigation into possible negligence in storing material at the site, writing on X that "the regulations are clear: ammunition must not be stored near houses or other residential buildings." According to the BBC, Ukraine's army said it had shot down 233 Russian drones overnight into Saturday, while Zelensky reported further strikes across Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia.
Russia's Ministry of Defence said its forces had targeted "an ammunition depot" in the village of Myla that stored "components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles," the BBC reported, underscoring Moscow's claim that the strike hit a legitimate military target. The BBC noted that Russia and Ukraine have intensified reciprocal attacks in recent months, with Kyiv focusing on Russian economic targets, including online retail and logistics hubs.
In Russia, local officials said two people were killed and 21 injured in Ukrainian strikes in the Belgorod and Rostov regions in the past 24 hours, according to the BBC. Russian online retailer Ozon said one of its logistics centres was hit in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike and that it had suspended operations at a second site "due to the danger in the area"; the BBC reported that Ozon and rival Wildberries facilities in Krasnodar, Dagestan, Stavropol and Adygea were targeted in earlier strikes this week.
The latest barrage comes as Western officials told the BBC that Russia is ramping up rhetoric but wants to avoid direct war with NATO, continuing "hybrid activity" against the alliance short of military action. The Kyiv-region strike, the deadliest single incident in months, raises fresh questions about the protection of civilian infrastructure and storage sites near residential areas as the air war grinds through its fifth year.
**Sources:** BBC
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