New Delhi, July 12 -- officials inside the country's largest state defense company had stored weapons and ammunition in a location expressly prohibited from holding them, beside the residential buildings where the dead had lived.

The disclosure, made Friday in a presidential statement that named Ukroboronprom as the responsible enterprise, opens an accountability reckoning inside Ukraine's own defense sector. Officials from two subsidiaries of the state conglomerate, and their deputies, face investigation. It is a rare public confrontation between Zelensky and the institution that underpins his military's supply chain.

The attack on Vyshneve formed part of a broader Russian strike on Kyiv that killed 19 people and injured 90 across the ...