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Secondary Explosions Hit Kyiv Warehouse After Drone Strike

Published 28 August 2026

A series of massive secondary explosions tore through a warehouse complex near Kyiv on Friday night following a suspected Russian drone strike, prompting Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergey Koretsky to suggest that dangerous military stocks had once again been stored close to populated areas. The incident occurred amid a sustained, two-day aerial campaign by Russian forces targeting the capital region with jet-powered drones. According to Ukrainian officials and open-source monitoring accounts, the strike took place at approximately 8:35 p.m. local time on August 28, 2026, in the village of Myla, within the Bucha District of Kyiv Oblast.

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