Shoot the Archer: Unable to Shoot Down the Missiles, Ukraine Now Wants to Destroy the Launchers Before They Ever Fire

A Russian missile and drone barrage kills at least 16 in Ukraine's Kyiv region

Moscow's forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine's chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.

Shoot the Archer: Unable to Shoot Down the Missiles, Ukraine Now Wants to Destroy the Launchers Before They Ever Fire

Is This How Ukraine Will Overcome Its Patriot Shortage? – Ukraine’s Patriot interceptor shortage is becoming impossible to ignore following another enormous Russian missile attack that killed 17 people in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight. The strikes are becoming so devastating that Ukraine is now looking for entirely different ways to stop the attacks, with Patriot deliveries not expected to arrive in time to fend off Russian attacks o…

Ukraine renews pleas for Patriot missiles

Ukraine’s leader said the country’s lack of Patriot missiles was costing lives after Russian airstrikes targeting Kyiv killed 17 and injured more than 40 on Thursday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long urged allies to replenish Kyiv’s stock of Patriots — one of the only weapons capable of downing ballistic missiles — but “the world’s response… is not always adequate,” he said. Ukraine has “pretty much run out of interceptors,” CNN reported, …

Lack of Patriots costing lives amid attacks: Zelenskiy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has condemned a Russian attack on Kyiv as one of the most "cynical, calculated, and large-scale" of the war.

Russian strikes kill 17 in Ukraine, Zelensky says lack of Patriots costing lives

Russia launched dozens of cruise missiles, as well as ballistic and hypersonic ones, and 168 drones at Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com.