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1648th day. Russia struck an ammunition depot near Kyiv. Due to the detonation, residential buildings and a boarding house for people with disabilities caught fire. Dozens of people died
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Ukraine
On the evening of August 28, the Russian army attacked the village of Mila in the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region. As a result, the warehouse of one of the enterprises where ammunition was stored caught fire. After the attack, detonation began, and the fire spread to private residential buildings. Due to strong explosions, the authorities completely blocked traffic along the Zhytomyr highway (M-06 "Kyiv - Chop") in the section from the 15th to the 32nd kilometer. Almost 400 people were evacuated from the area affected by the attack.
On Saturday morning, the head of the military administration of the Kiev region, Timur Tkachenko, said that at least 27 people were killed as a result of the Russian strike. Another 42 people, including four children, were injured of varying degrees of severity. Among the dead is the head of the Dmitrievsk community in the Kyiv region, Taras Didich, who helped save people from the fire.
Updated . As of 14:00 Saturday, 37 people are known to have died as a result of the Russian strike in the Buchansky district, writes Timur Tkachenko.
About 50 residential buildings were damaged. Local publications reported that the greatest damage was sustained by a nearby boarding house for the elderly and people with disabilities, where 20 people died.
Vladimir Zelensky confirmed that the boarding house was damaged. “It is imperative that those who allowed this to happen must be held accountable for their decisions. Investigators from the National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine are conducting a pre-trial investigation, and criminal proceedings have been opened under the article on official negligence. There are rules: ammunition is near houses, there cannot be other residential buildings. There will definitely be corresponding conclusions,” said the President of Ukraine.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Sergei Koretsky called what happened in the Buchansky district the result of “criminal negligence,” recalling the “terrible tragedy in Vyshneve,” which “did not become a lesson.” In July, Russian troops struck a Ukroboronprom warehouse in the city of Vishneve near Kiev - due to the detonation, 300 residential buildings were damaged and nine people were killed.
On August 30, mourning was declared in the Kyiv region for those killed as a result of the Russian strike.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that it attacked with drones in the village of Mila an ammunition warehouse of the Ukrainian defense company Fire Point, which stored components for FP-1/FP-2 drones. In addition, the department claims, on the night of August 29, the Russian military attacked logistics centers in the villages of Chaika and Kalinovka near Kiev, where, among other things, components of the Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missiles were stored.
Russia
Ukrainian drones struck the Rostov region. According to local governor Yuri Slyusar, 11 people were injured in the attack. Nine, including four children, were hospitalized.
In Rostov-on-Don, drones damaged two apartment buildings. In Aksai (a satellite city of Rostov-on-Don), due to the fall of “UAV debris,” a fire occurred in a residential building, as well as in the warehouse area.
According to Astra, nearby warehouses of the Ozon marketplace and the DNS electronics store were hit. Ozon confirmed the attack. The company said the fire was quickly extinguished and there were no injuries.
Ukraine has been attacking Ozon warehouses for a week now. During this time, the company's logistics centers in seven Russian regions came under attack. Before this, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the warehouses of Wildberries, the largest Russian marketplace. Ukraine has not previously struck at DNS logistics centers (ranks fourth in terms of online sales in Russia - after Wildberries, Ozon and Yandex Market).
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Lera (EU/Ukraine) . I can only say that we do not need hostility. In principle. Especially among Meduza readers from Ukraine and Russia. Because it's wrong. The war will end anyway, and we will have to talk somehow. And apparently, you and I are the only ones who can conduct this dialogue. By "we" I mean:
- Russian citizens who do not support the war. It doesn’t matter to me that you don’t go to rallies and can’t change power. I have no condemnation, but, frankly speaking, no support either - rather, complete indifference. This is your country, your choice and your circumstances, it’s not for me to judge you. You will figure this out on your own, I wish you nothing but the best.
- Ukrainians who understand that not everyone there is zombied by a box and there are adequate people who, due to circumstances, find themselves in such a situation. And I absolutely don’t care whether you yourself are to blame for these circumstances or not, it doesn’t matter. The main thing is that there are those who understand that you exist.
But you and I are on the same side. The side that does not support your country's murderous war against mine. And this means that so that you and I do not become dull and live to see the moment of dialogue in the future, we should hold on.
We must refrain from quietly rejoicing at attacks on your territory that kill you. Including all sorts of Wildberries. But I can’t sympathize with you either - because there is nothing to sympathize with, I have a whole country of my own with a lot of reasons to cry every day - but I can’t, because I’ve already cried all my tears in the fifth year. So there is no need for emotions in your direction in principle.
And you should not compare you and us, how right or wrong we are in our strikes - because on your part it looks somehow strange when you quietly condemn those who can be easily condemned in your country (Ukraine), but at the same time remain silent about those who cannot be loudly condemned in your country (the government). We don’t need to sympathize with you either; your sympathy won’t give us anything. As is ours for you. So try not to feel any strong emotions towards us either.
Let's try to simply remove all bad emotions towards each other, because hatred primarily destroys ourselves. And then you and I will somehow figure out what to do if we live to see the hour of dialogue. At least I hope so. Most of all, I am afraid that among you and us there will be no one left who is not ready to spray poison.