The attack on Myla, Aug. 29 -- The community head of Myla arrived at the storage facility on the Kyiv-Chop highway shortly after the first explosion, drawn like dozens of residents and first responders to the fire that had broken out after a Russian drone struck the site Thursday evening. He was killed in the detonations that followed, one of 27 people who died when the facility's contents, which Russia's Defense Ministry would later describe as ammunition and drone components, ignited in sequence through the night.

10 p.m. on August 28. Emergency services confirmed 42 injuries, four of them children. At least 50 residential buildings were damaged. Officials evacuated 381 people, including 59 children, from surrounding areas as ammunitio...