After a Russian strike kills nine outside Kyiv, Zelensky says the town held a state-owned arms depot. He vows firings at the company that owns it.

Source: Hromadske

A Russian strike overnight on July 6 hit the city of Vyshneve, outside Kyiv, where the state defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom had an ammunition depot, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on July 9.

Zelensky described the explosion in Vyshneve as an “absolutely horrifying situation” that had left a large number of people injured. He offered condolences to the injured and to the relatives of those killed.

“But condolences alone are not enough,” he said. “I have received all the information from the Security Service of Ukraine, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and from the Prosecutor General’s Office. A criminal case has been opened, and those responsible will be held criminally liable. And there will certainly be dismissals at Ukroboronprom, because the depot belonged to one of its enterprises.”

In the early hours of July 6, Russia struck Kyiv and the surrounding region with missiles and drones. The city of Vyshneve came under attack, and munitions there began detonating. According to authorities, the strike on Vyshneve killed nine people. Nearly 300 homes in the city were damaged, 91 of them completely destroyed. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko called it “the most extensive destruction of the residential sector” since the war began.

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