New Delhi, July 25 -- intelligence, he said, pointed to a massive Russian attack expected within 48 hours.

"Please take care of yourselves and pay attention to air raid alerts," Zelenskyy wrote on Saturday morning. The framing went further than routine warning language. He described what Ukrainian intelligence services had identified as pointing to a strike being prepared, not merely anticipated.

The arms exhibition struck Friday was not a military installation. It was a civilian venue for people involved in Ukraine's domestic defense procurement, a sector Kyiv has urgently expanded as the Russian operation's duration consumed Western transfer timelines and the domestic weapons manufacturing base became strategically essential. What the...