New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- At 4 a.m. in the Moscow suburbs, an 83-year-old man was asleep when a Ukrainian drone struck his house in Podolsk. He did not survive. Across the Russian capital's outer belt, fires burned at a Wildberries logistics hub the size of 35 football fields, at a medicine warehouse in Domodedovo, and at a string of residential buildings and industrial facilities stretching from Kashira to Ramenskoye. By the time Russia's Defense Ministry issued its morning statement, the overnight toll had reached at least six dead across the country, the result of one of the largest aerial barrages Ukraine has launched since the Russia-Ukraine war began.

fires from Leningrad Region's Baltic coast port of Ust-Luga in the north to the Black...