Aftermath of the Russian attack on the railway station in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, on Aug. 5, 2026. (Olena Zashko / The Kyiv Independent)BROVARY, KYIV OBLAST — Eight people were killed as they stood waiting for a delayed train overnight on Aug. 5 during one of the most intense Russian bombardments of the town of Brovary, just east of Kyiv, of the entire war.The morning light exposed a scene of horror — bodies still lay beside the town's small railway platform, with some human remains scattered across the ground. Railway workers, meanwhile, had already begun repairing the damaged tracks only meters away. The air was heavy with the smell of death.The strike landed in a line of trees immediately behind the station, with the blast tearing across the platform where passengers had been waiting for a delayed train.Smoke fills the sky following a Russian missile strike on a goods storage area in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 5, 2026. (Andrew Kravchenko / Bloomberg / Getty Images)Those living in the Brovary district had been under sporadic attack from Russian jet-powered drones since the early evening. As the night wore on, not only did this intensify, but a barrage of ballistic missiles that also struck the capital and surrounding oblast, ripping the night apart."That was the most terrifying night of my life," 48-year-old Anastasia told the Kyiv Independent, as she described how her house was hit by a drone and then rocked by blast wave after blast wave from missiles targeting warehouses nearby in an ordeal that lasted almost 12 hours."You know who they say 'You’ll never hear the missile that’s meant for you'? This was exactly the case," she said.