Kyiv, Sept. 29 -- The night bled into morning under the thud of intercepts and the whine of generators. In one of the heaviest combined barrages of the war, Russia sent waves of missiles and drones against Ukraine's capital and a half-dozen regions, a saturation strike that Ukraine's air force said it met with a record number of shoot-downs, yet one that still punched cruelly through. Among the dead in Kyiv were patients and staff at a cardiology institute, authorities said, after an impact shattered the building's upper floors and set fire to adjacent apartments. It was the kind of attack that leaves a city sounding different the next day - glass underfoot, sirens stretched thin, a neighbor's door left crooked on its hinges.

Sunday nigh...