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KYIV: A massive Russian bombardment of Kyiv this week that lit up the night sky, sent thunderous booms echoing through the capital, and killed two dozen civilians, has revealed a stark dichotomy in Ukraine’s air defence architecture.
Ukraine -- at war for more than four years -- has become the envy of some of the world’s most powerful militaries in combating long-range drones.
But at the same time it is uniquely vulnerable to Russian missiles, and remains almost entirely reliant on its Western allies to counter them.
Russia fired 675 drones and 56 missiles in the seven-hour barrage that ripped open a Kyiv apartment block, killing 24 people.
