Russian air strikes on Friday killed at least 37 people in Kyiv, most of them in a care home for the elderly and people with disabilities in the Bucha district village of Myla. The attacks targeted an ammunition depot, igniting a fire that spread to surrounding residential buildings and the care facility, which suffered significant damage. Dozens more were injured in the blast and subsequent fires.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that criminal cases had been opened on charges of official negligence, accusing local officials of storing explosives too close to civilian structures. In an online post he called the incident a “terrible situation and terrible negligence” and said all responsible parties must be held accountable and severely punished to prevent a repeat of such tragedies.
Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi linked the Myla strike to a July attack on an ammunition depot in the Kyiv suburb of Vyshneve, which killed 22 people. He described the recurrence as “criminal negligence” and warned that repeating the same mistakes in the fifth year of the invasion would not be tolerated. The 37 fatalities surpassed the 31 deaths recorded in the July 2 attack, making Friday’s strike the deadliest single incident in the capital this year.
In related developments, Russia’s defence ministry reported a successful test of a nuclear‑capable intercontinental ballistic missile with a range exceeding 6,700 km, launched from the Arkhangelsk region to a target in Kamchatka. The test came days after CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow to warn against attacks on NATO members, a claim the Kremlin rejected as a western scare story. Meanwhile, the UK navy tracked a Russian task group, including the destroyer Admiral Levchenko, through the English Channel as part of a 72‑hour operation, underscoring ongoing maritime tensions.
