Russia is launching ballistic missiles as Ukraine lacks interceptors to protect itself

Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that lasted for hours and killed at least 16 people, officials said Thursday. In recent months, Moscow’s forces have 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. (AP Video shot by: Vasilisa Stepanenko, Dan Bashakov & Volodymyr Yurchuk)

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