Ukraine could run out of air defense missiles if Russia keeps up its intense long-range bombing campaign, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned in remarks aired on Saturday.
KYIV — The Ukrainian leader's starkest warning to date of the deteriorating situation faced by his country's air defenses follows weeks of Russia n strikes on the energy system, towns and cities using a broad arsenal of missiles and drones."If they keep hitting every day the way they have for the last month, we might run out of missiles, and the partners know it," he said in an interview that aired on Ukrainian television.
Ukraine's largest private power company DTEK says the strikes had hit 80% of its generating capacity and the grid has introduced rolling blackouts to stabilize the system.'We will agree to any options'The battlefield momentum has moved against Ukraine in recent months as Kyiv grappled with a slowdown in military assistance from the West and in particular from the United States."The situation is difficult, but nevertheless stabilized.
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