India, June 2 -- The factory floors were not the only things targeted. So were the people who build the weapons inside them.

Russia launched what Ukrainian officials described as one of the war's most extensive aerial assaults overnight on June 2, striking Ukraine's defense industry with a coordinated barrage of hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and hundreds of attack drones. The Russian Defense Ministry said the strikes were retaliation for what it called Ukrainian "terrorist attacks" - a framing Kyiv rejected as propaganda. By dawn, at least 11 people were dead across the country and more than 100 wounded, with both Kyiv and the central city of Dnipro absorbing the heaviest blows.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russian fo...