New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The first explosion sent shoppers fleeing into the street. Thirty minutes later, with firefighters already moving through the wreckage, a second drone struck the same site. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia knew exactly what it was hitting.

close enough to reach by drone, far enough that residents had not entirely given up on ordinary afternoon routines.

Zelenskyy described the strikes as "cynical and despicable" and said they amounted to "nothing less than terrorist acts." His central accusation - that the second strike was timed specifically to hit emergency responders working the first blast site - raised the attack beyond the familiar pattern of civilian infrastructure strikes that has continued through more than...