Russia Launches Largest Ballistic Missile Barrage of War Against Kyiv With 50+ Missiles, Less Than Half Intercepted as Stockpiles Deplete

Russia struck Kyiv and surrounding oblast overnight with what Ukrainian officials and multiple outlets described as the war's largest ballistic missile barrage, mixing Iskander ballistic missiles with Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles and drones across roughly six city districts 123. Casualty and interception figures diverge by source: the Washington Examiner reported six dead and over 50 missiles with less than half intercepted 1, while Al Jazeera and the Kyiv Independent, citing Ukraine's air force, put the toll at one killed and 16-17 wounded, with 18 of 41 missiles downed by one account and 17 of 25-35 ballistic/Zirkon missiles by another 23. Strikes hit the UKRTAC defense-gear plant, residential buildings, a metro station entrance, and warehouses near Bucha, and separate drone and missile strikes killed one person in Dnipropetrovsk and a train conductor in Zaporizhzhia 123. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the attack a "brutal terrorist attack" and urged tougher sanctions on Moscow 2. Bloomberg separately reported that Patriot interceptor stocks are depleted, with Western supplies partly diverted to the Middle East 4.