Volunteers evacuated people from Kukhugum who had survived previous KAB strikes, according to a Telegram post. A woman recounted that they went to the basement eight minutes before the strike and heard an explosion shortly after. The Russian army reportedly dropped a KAB-500 on Kukhugum.

A woman described the aftermath: "There is no house, no nothing. There is a huge crater. There is such a crater and a fragment weighing about 15 kilograms. A metal fence was thrown back five meters away." A neighbor and her 8-year-old granddaughter were in the basement; the child was alive but frightened.