37 Killed After Russian Strike on Weapons Depot as Ukraine Blames Negligence
The depot, which was in a civilian area near Kyiv, “definitely shouldn’t have been there,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Women walking near the site of a Russian drone strike in the Kyiv region of Ukraine on Saturday. Alina Smutko/Reuters By Siobhán O’Grady Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine Aug. 29, 2026 Updated 10:40 a.m. ET original article contains links A Russian strike on a weapons depot that was dangerously close to civilian buildings left at least 37 people dead near Ukraine’s capital, the Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country this year. The strike came after days of nonstop Russian drone attacks on the capital, Kyiv, that have strained Ukraine’s limited air defenses and exhausted the population. The Ukrainian authorities called the storage of weapons in civilian areas negligent and vowed to investigate. The Russian strike, which took place late Friday, caused huge secondary explosions from stocks of Ukrainian ammunit...