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Zelensky says Ukraine has ‘no interceptors’ as ballistic missiles hit Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had appealed for American air-defense missiles during a White House meeting on Tuesday. August 1, 2026 at 10:19 a.m.    Smoke rises above residential buildings after an air attack in Kyiv on Saturday. (Eugene Kotenko/AFP/Getty Images)   By David L. Stern , Kostiantyn Khudov , Serhii Korolchuk and  Serhiy Morgunov KYIV — Russian ballistic missiles rained down on Kyiv early Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 30, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country had run out of air defense interceptors . Russian forces fired nearly 200 attack drones and 35 missiles, including 27 ballistic missile s , pr imarily at the capital, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media. “Only one ballistic missile was intercepted, simply because there are no interceptors,” Zelensky wrote. “A hell of a night,” Ukrainian Foreign Minster [sic] Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.  The Russian attack occ...
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Ukraine’s Strike on Iranian Ship Shows How Two Wars Could Spiral

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Iran sent military aid to Russia for its war against Ukraine. Now the question is whether that conflict and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran are converging. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Mr. Zelensky has tried to make the case that the wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine have some common elements. Alex Kent/ The New York Times By Edward Wong driven the lch of this entry (and my own ignorance), I please guilty to its miskakes  Edward Wong, a diplomatic correspondent based in Washington, reported from Manila, where he covered the visit of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Ukraine and Iran, two nations at war with nuclear powers, tiptoed dangerously close to conflict with each other in recent days, when Ukraine struck an Iranian commercial cargo ship in the Caspian Sea. The attack killed an Iranian civilian sailor. Ukraine said the ship was transporting military equipment to Russia. Iran considered retaliating, but diplomats defused the cris...
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