Deadly Kyiv blast raises weapons storage questions

Military analyst Marina Miron speaks with DW about a Russian drone strike on an ammunition storage site near Kyiv that triggered a massive secondary explosion, killing at least 37 people and damaging nearby homes.

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The Russian drone strike on what appears to have been a weapons depot caused a “secondary detonation” which damaged dozens of residential buildings close to the site, including a care home for elderly and disabled people.

Ukrainian prosecutors have opened an investigation into why explosive weapons were being stored so close to people’s homes.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “absolutely unacceptable,” and said he expected details of the probe to be made public soon.

Marina Miron is a postdoctoral researcher in the Defense Studies Department at King’s College, London. 

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