Russia pounded Kyiv and the region in a heavy ballistic missile attack early on Saturday, killing 10 people, as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Ukraine had run out of interceptor missiles for its U.S. Patriot air defense systems.
Zelensky said that Russia launched 35 missiles at Ukraine, including 27 ballistic missiles, and also 185 drones. Only one ballistic missile was intercepted, “simply because there are no interceptors for the Patriot system,” he said.
More than a dozen explosions reverberated through the city during several waves of attacks, according to Reuters witnesses.
“Every package of ballistic missile interceptors saves the lives of our people. And every night without them results in more casualties,” Zelensky said on X.
With the war in its fifth year, fighting is raging along about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) of front line. But Russian advances have slowed by more than half this year, and Ukraine has been launching strikes inside Russia hitting its oil facilities, logistics sites and weapons production.
