Ukraine air defense shortage: Russian attacks increasingly deadly as Kyiv pleads for U.S. interceptors

Left vulnerable by a critical shortage of U.S. missile interceptors, Ukrainian cities have been defenseless against intensifying Russian aerial attacks.

KYIV, Ukraine — The Russian barrage shook her walls and shattered her window glass before shrapnel slammed, initially unnoticed, into her back. Anastasiia Holubieva scratched her head and looked down to see her hand covered in blood — the work of one of dozens of rockets fired on a recent night during which the Ukrainian capital could only intercept a single missile.

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