Ukraine needs five percent of the United States’ Patriot interceptor missiles to get through the winter and 10 percent to destroy all of Russia’s ballistic projectiles, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview published on Thursday.
Russia has recently been firing mass barrages at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv roughly once a week, killing civilians and damaging or destroying homes.
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In one attack, Ukraine failed to intercept any of the 28 ballistic missiles launched at it.
Speaking to CNN, Zelenskyy said Ukraine this year “had two-and-a-half times less interceptors than we had in 2025.”
