New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Workers at the San-Park logistics complex on the eastern edge of Kyiv reported seeing the orange glow before the sound reached them. By the time Ukrainian emergency services arrived Thursday morning, the warehouse that Russia's Defense Ministry would describe as the largest storage and distribution hub for strike drones in the country was already burning.

a coordinated operation that targeted not the power grid, as Russia did in its winter campaigns, but the supply chain that sustains Ukraine's drone-based warfare. Drone assembly workshops in the Kyiv region and Odessa oblast, fuel infrastructure for military vehicles, metallurgical plants supplying steel for arms production, and 24 port storage facilities in Odessa...