Pakistan, June 3 -- Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, killing at least ten people and wounding around a hundred. The barrages hit Kyiv and Dnipro, sending fireballs above high-rise buildings and forcing residents into subway stations for shelter, with four killed and 58 injured in Kyiv alone. Six more died, and 36 were wounded, in Dnipro, while a child was among ten people hurt in Kharkiv. These numbers, as gruesome as they are, risk blending into the grim routine of a war now entering its fifth year.

What makes this attack especially disturbing is not only the scale of violence but the way it exposes the failure of conflict prevention. Kyiv had warned of a "massive strike" and urged its defenders to remain ...