Russia’s air defenses can’t protect all its strategic sites once Ukraine’s ballistic missiles are ready, expert says
Russia's best interceptors cluster around the capital.
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine has agreed on a new Patriot interceptor package—won’t say with whom
The president told the Ukrainian community in the US that a package of interceptor missiles for Patriot systems had been agreed, keeping the partner secret while calling it "an important decision."
North Korea has fired around 150 ballistic missiles at Ukraine, learning from each one. Same missiles threaten Japan, and Kyiv just shows its speaker what is inside them
The components come from a missile Russia fired at Ukraine, and Kyiv's spies argue the same North Korean weapons threaten Japan too.
Russia is using inaccurate missiles that can miss by hundreds of meters to attack Ukrainian cities – and plans to scale them up
Russia is increasingly using RM48U missiles originally designed as air-defense training targets to attack Ukraine. Their large margin of error makes them especially dangerous when fired at Ukrainian cities, where they can strike civilian areas far from any intended targets.
The EU just released $7 billion for Ukraine to buy Patriot missiles and drones
The money comes from Europe's existing loan to Kyiv, and the decision finally lets Ukraine place orders for the American interceptors it cannot build itself.
Can’t intercept the missiles? Hit the factories—Ukraine’s other way to stop Russia’s ballistic missiles
Kyiv's US Patriots are all but gone as Russia builds ~100 of its deadliest missiles a month. Ukraine's fix: a $700,000 homemade interceptor.
Russia’s new ballistic missile could reach western Ukraine—and it may be tested there within months
Russia is building more ballistic missiles as well as longer-ranged ones, part of a push to tip Ukraine into a social and economic crisis, Kyiv's military intelligence says.
Ukraine shows a home-built missile designed to hit ballistic targets for the first time, the Koral, at Poland’s MSPO
Its guidance combines inertial navigation, radio correction, and an active radar homing head.
Brussels cleared Ukraine to spend EU loan money on American Patriot missiles for the coming winter of Russian attacks
The request went in four days earlier, and the funds come from the bloc's existing credit line rather than any new pledge.
Trump’s peace envoys left, and Russia hit Kyiv with ballistics—the one thing Ukraine still struggles to stop
Only two ballistic missiles came down overnight, and the shortfall is now the centerpiece of what Kyiv is asking its allies to deliver.
Spain keeps arming Ukraine against Russia’s ballistic missiles—and promises even more
Madrid is readying a fresh batch of interceptors for Kyiv, and has ordered four new Patriot systems of its own in a $1.7 billion Raytheon deal.
Iskander Russia fired at Kyiv Oblast in July held 62 American parts. Ukraine has now named more than 100 Russian ballistics producers and wants its allies to sanction all of them
Kyiv wants every identified maker of Russian ballistic missiles on allied sanctions lists by fall.
Ukraine says it hit an Iskander launcher near the border—part of a dedicated hunt for Russia’s ballistic launch sites
The tactic gives Kyiv another way to reduce the missile threat when its stocks of anti-ballistic interceptors are low, Zelenskyy says.
Russia struck Kyiv and Boryspil, its main airport hub, twice in 24 hours with ballistics Ukraine can’t stop without US Patriots, days before Independence Day
Russia has struck Kyiv and its suburbs with ballistic missiles for a second consecutive day, killing civilians. Meanwhile,…
Russia’s North Korean missiles could threaten Kyiv and six other regions, ISW says
Moscow is expected to keep saving ballistic and cruise missiles for periodic mass attacks designed to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses.
Kyiv is asking Musk to let it strike inside Russia. Its best line to Musk is gone
Running low on Patriot interceptors, Kyiv wants to hunt the launchers up to 200 km inside Russia—but only Musk can switch the drones on.
Ukraine’s biggest weakness against Russia isn’t interceptor shortage, analyst argues. It’s what happens before missiles even launch
Russia plans its terror campaigns years out, an analyst says.
Russia stops mass-producing Kinzhals amid accuracy problems, but 50 missiles remain ready for Ukraine
Russia is redirecting resources toward other ballistic and cruise missiles as it seeks to maintain the pace of strikes against Ukraine.
14 killed as Russia unleashes massive overnight barrage on unprotected Kyiv, striking homes, hospital, school and railway infrastructure
Russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic and cruise missiles, including Zircon, Iskander-M and S-400 missiles, as well as 168 Shahed-type and other drones in a massive overnight barrage.
Russia hit Kyiv with ballistic and hypersonic missiles overnight, damaging a children’s hospital, with people trapped in a shelter
Russia launched a massed overnight attack on Kyiv with ballistic and Zircon hypersonic missiles on 20 August.