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Arpan Rai 7 July 2026 04:58 Kyiv says it is facing interceptor missiles shortage as Russia increases attacks Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 351 drones…
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Arpan Rai 7 July 2026 04:58 Kyiv says it is facing interceptor missiles shortage as Russia increases attacks Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 351 drones and 68 missiles overnight into Monday, targeting mainly Kyiv, and all 29 ballistic missiles struck their targets. “To intercept ballistics, we need the means for interception,” air force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said on national television. “Russians are certainly using the fact that there is a serious deficit of interceptor missiles now, in Ukraine and the world.” Ukraine’s defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Russia is deliberately ramping up ballistic missile attacks on a scale unseen before, exploiting the acute shortage of Patriot interceptors. “Fewer such missiles are produced worldwide each month than the enemy fires at Ukraine in that same period,” he said. Russia's defence ministry threatened that any increase in the supply of drones, missiles and ammunition produced in the West "will not go unnoticed and will be countered by a corresponding increase in the number and power of retaliatory strikes by the Russian armed forces on Ukrainian territory.” (Getty) Arpan Rai 7 July 2026 04:36 Trump says Ukraine war is 'getting closer' to settle after talks with Putin and Zelensky US president Donald Trump said on Monday that a resolution to the more than four-year-old war in Ukraine is "getting closer than people realise" and that he will talk about Ukraine during talks in Turkey this week at a Nato summit. “This is one that I think we're getting much closer than people realise. Strikes overnight on July 5 through July 6 killed at least 14 people, a day after Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine in a phone call. “He wants to end it,” Trump said of Putin in comments to reporters on July 6. “And President Zelensky actually wants it to end now.
Furthermore, Putin wants Ukraine to surrender the eastern Donetsk region that Russia has failed to capture in fighting since 2014, a demand Kyiv rejects. Nato secretary general Mark Rutte said on Monday Europeans had made “staggering” increases in defence spending in part due to fears of Russia, which have surged since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but also because Trump had been “extremely forceful” in encouraging them to do so. Ahead of the Nato summit in Turkey, Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had performed well against drones and cruise missiles but not against ballistic missiles — a shortfall he blamed on insufficient supplies of interceptors.
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Arpan Rai 7 July 2026 04:58 Kyiv says it is facing interceptor missiles shortage as Russia increases attacks Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 351 drones and 68 missiles overnight into Monday, targeting mainly Kyiv, and all 29 ballistic missiles struck their targets. “To intercept ballistics, we need the means for interception,” air force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said on national television. “Russians are certainly using the fact that there is a serious deficit of interceptor missiles now, in Ukraine and the world.” Ukraine’s defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Russia is deliberately ramping up ballistic missile attacks on a scale unseen before, exploiting the acute shortage of Patriot interceptors. “Fewer such missiles are produced worldwide each month than the enemy fires at Ukraine in that same period,” he said.
reliability moderate2/2 sourcesRussia's defence ministry threatened that any increase in the supply of drones, missiles and ammunition produced in the West "will not go unnoticed and will be countered by a corresponding increase in the number and power of retaliatory strikes by the Russian armed forces on Ukrainian territory.” (Getty) Arpan Rai 7 July 2026 04:36 Trump says Ukraine war is 'getting closer' to settle after talks with Putin and Zelensky US president Donald Trump said on Monday that a resolution to the more than four-year-old war in Ukraine is "getting closer than people realise" and that he will talk about Ukraine during talks in Turkey this week at a Nato summit. “This is one that I think we're getting much closer than people realise.
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Strikes overnight on July 5 through July 6 killed at least 14 people, a day after Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine in a phone call. “He wants to end it,” Trump said of Putin in comments to reporters on July 6. “And President Zelensky actually wants it to end now.
according to The Straits Times - WorldPutin wants Ukraine to surrender the eastern Donetsk region that Russia has failed to capture in fighting since 2014, a demand Kyiv rejects.
according to The Straits Times - WorldNato secretary general Mark Rutte said on Monday Europeans had made “staggering” increases in defence spending in part due to fears of Russia, which have surged since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but also because Trump had been “extremely forceful” in encouraging them to do so.
according to The IndependentAhead of the Nato summit in Turkey, Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had performed well against drones and cruise missiles but not against ballistic missiles — a shortfall he blamed on insufficient supplies of interceptors.
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