The strike late on Friday hit a depot in the village of Myla, in the Bucha district west of Kyiv, triggering secondary explosions of shells, mines and drones. Regional head Tymur Tkachenko said 42 people, including four children, were injured and almost 400 residents were evacuated. About 130 homes were damaged.
Russia's Ministry of Defence said its forces had targeted an ammunition depot holding 'components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles'.
Zelensky said the site 'definitely shouldn't have been there' and that criminal proceedings had been opened on charges of official negligence. 'The regulations are clear: ammunition must not be stored near houses or other residential buildings. Appropriate conclusions will certainly be drawn,' he wrote on social media.
The attack is the second to hit a munitions depot near Kyiv in recent months, after a strike in Vyshneve in July killed nine people and injured dozens more. The pattern has raised fresh questions about why explosives were stored so close to homes.
Local resident Liubov Pavlenko, 45, told the BBC her home about 200 metres from the warehouse had cracked walls and compromised structural integrity. 'I'm still kind of numb,' she said. Another resident, Borys Daniyluk, 61, asked: 'Why were ammunition and weapons stored there, next to a populated village?'
A separate attack in the Boryspil district killed a 14-year-old, Tkachenko reported. Zelensky also said overnight strikes hit the Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia regions. In Russia, local officials reported two killed and 21 injured in strikes on the Belgorod and Rostov regions over the past 24 hours.