Ukraine's depleted air defenses fail to stop Russian missile barrage killing 21

Twenty-one people killed and dozens injured in the attack; civilian homes destroyed and residents traumatized by the assault.

In the long and grinding arithmetic of modern warfare, Russia launched 139 weapons — drones and ballistic missiles — against Ukraine in a single night, killing twenty-one people and exposing a painful truth: a defense system worn down by months of attrition cannot hold every line at once. Near Kyiv, homes were unmade in seconds, and residents like Anastasiia Dudley found themselves living inside a statistic they never wished to become. This assault was less a surprise than a demonstration — of capacity, of will, and of the widening gap between what Ukraine needs to protect its people and what

Ukraine's depleted air defenses fail to stop Russian missile barrage killing 21

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