Anastasiia Mysaka, 21, speaks during an interview in Vyshneve, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, on July 3, 2026. (Danylo Antoniuk / The Kyiv Independent)VYSHNEVE, Kyiv Oblast – After a Russian missile strike tore through a quiet suburb just southwest of Kyiv on July 6, causing massive explosions at a warehouse near a residential area, entire streets resemble a front-line town.Where neat gardens, cherry trees, and family homes once stood, there are now scorched foundations, collapsed roofs, and piles of twisted metal. The blast resulted in the most extensive damage to residential areas since Russia's full-scale invasion began, Ukrainian officials said.That night, a Russian attack hit an ammunition depot belonging to an enterprise under Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's largest state-owned defense manufacturer, triggering a powerful secondary explosion, President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.Russia has struck defense industry sites in this part of Vyshneve before, including an attack on the Vizar machine-building plant on April 15, 2022, which Ukroboronprom confirmed at the time. Russia's Defense Ministry said it hit the same plant on July 6, while Ukrainian authorities have only confirmed that the struck site belonged to a Ukroboronprom enterprise.Ukrainian authorities have since launched an investigation to identify those responsible for storing explosives in a warehouse less than 18 meters (60 feet) from a residential house, a distance prosecutors say was prohibited by law.An aerial view shows the scale of destruction in Vyshneve, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, following a Russian night attack on July 6, 2026, with burnt-out houses and damaged streets visible across the area. (Libkos / Getty Images)Several residents said they had known about the military facility in their neighborhood, but they told the Kyiv Independent they want to know who authorized the storage of the explosives — and when the state will compensate them for what they lost.Anastasiia Mysaka, 21, was not at home when the explosions began. Her grandmother, who would have turned 80 on Aug. 1, was bedridden and unable to evacuate. She died in the fire."It is important to me that those responsible face a fair and the most severe punishment provided for by law," Mysaka told the Kyiv Independent.