A Russian strike on an ammunition warehouse in the village of Myla, roughly 15 miles outside central Kyiv, has left at least 38 people dead and prompted residents to turn their anger toward those responsible for storing weapons close to civilian areas, according to the Guardian.

The attack was carried out by a Russian jet-powered drone that smashed into the ammunition dump. A day and a half after the strike, the aftermath remained stark for local residents whose homes and gardens sit close to the impact site.

Volodymyr, a 61-year-old security guard, led visitors from his family’s badly damaged home toward the point of impact roughly 300 metres away. His house had its roof blown off and its back windows shattered.

The damage extended into the family’s garden, a sizeable allotment of the kind common in Ukraine’s villages and suburbs. The greenhouse was shattered, a vegetable patch was left blackened and crisp underfoot, and several metres of grapevine were destroyed. Despite the destruction, Volodymyr found two surviving bunches of grapes to hand to the Guardian.

The incident has focused attention on the placement of ammunition depots near residential communities, with locals putting blame on poorly positioned storage sites that they say put their villages at risk.

The strike is part of the continuing pattern of Russian attacks on ammunition storage sites during the war in Ukraine, which has repeatedly brought the conflict into close proximity with civilian homes.