New Delhi, July 3 -- KYIV - The moment Hanna Polishchuk and her family emerged from an underground parking garage, a ballistic missile struck. They went back underground.

Russia launched 74 missiles and 496 drones at Ukraine's capital overnight into Thursday in what Ukrainian officials called the heaviest aerial attack on Kyiv since Russia's military operation began, killing at least 30 people and wounding 91 others, including two children. The metro system sheltered a record 52,500 residents as explosions echoed through the city for 11 hours, and damage was reported in every district. In the Darnytskyi district, the assault crushed 64 apartments in a single residential block; six floors of a nine-story building collapsed, and a five-sto...