00:15Midnight, Kyiv. The sirens start again. Within hours, the sky over Ukraine's capital fills with
00:23something Ukraine has never fully learned to stop. Nearly 420 aerial weapons launched in a single
00:30night at one city. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched the combined attack involving 23 ballistic
00:38missiles, 39 cruise missiles, 6 hypersonic zircon missiles, and 351 attack and decoy drones overnight,
00:47with Kyiv as the primary target. That's not a raid. That's a saturation attack.
00:53Built to overload. Here's the part that should terrify anyone watching this war closely.
01:00Ukrainian defenses did their job against drones and cruise missiles. But against ballistic missiles?
01:06None of the ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine that night were shot down by air defenses,
01:11according to Ukraine's air force. Zero out of 23. Why? Ukraine's air force spokesman put it bluntly.
01:20To intercept ballistic missiles, you need the actual means of interception. And Russia is exploiting a
01:27serious deficit of interceptor missiles that exists in Ukraine and around the world right now.
01:33That means one thing. Patriot systems and the missiles that feed them are running dry. Not just in Ukraine,
01:40but globally. This wasn't a strike on a battlefield. It hit where people sleep. A residential tower in Kyiv's
01:48Padilsky district took a direct hit. A residential building there partially collapsed. Rescue crews spent
01:55hours pulling survivors and bodies from the wreckage in multiple apartment blocks. Kyiv's city military chief
02:01didn't mince words. These were residential buildings. Places where people slept and lived ordinary lives.
02:08The southeastern Darnitsky district, already scarred from an attack days earlier, was hit again.
02:15Here's the pattern that matters. This was the second mass attack on Kyiv in less than a week. Just days
02:21earlier,
02:22a Russian strike killed roughly 30 people in the same city. And the timing isn't random. This barrage landed
02:29the night before world leaders, including the U.S. president, arrive in Turkey for a NATO summit.
02:36Ukraine's president called it what he sees it as, an attempt to terrorize civilians right as Russia
02:42struggles to make gains on the actual battlefield. So what does Ukraine want out of all this? One word,
02:49really. Interceptors. Kyiv is pushing allies to leave that NATO summit with concrete commitments
02:56on air defense. Because right now, the ballistic missile is the one weapon in Russia's arsenal
03:02that nothing on the ground can touch. Drones can be jammed. Cruise missiles can be shot down.
03:08But ballistic missiles fall in minutes at unstoppable speeds. And until more interceptors arrive,
03:15Kyiv's rooftops are the last line of defense. Kyiv is still standing. But every night like this one
03:22asks the same question, how many more can it take?
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