Everyone Can Count

Stay in the Room Podcast · Aug 31, 2026 · 10m

At around ten past eight on the evening of Friday 28 August, a Russian drone hit a warehouse in the village of Myla, in the Bucha district of Kyiv Oblast. The strike started a fire. What killed people was what happened next: the ammunition in the warehouse began to detonate, and went on detonating long enough that a stretch of the Kyiv-Chop highway had to be closed. At least thirty-seven died and forty-two were injured, four of them children. The heaviest damage was to a care home for elderly and disabled residents beside it. Among the dead was Taras Didych, who ran the local community and…