Zelenskyy said the casualties were a direct consequence of Ukraine running out of Patriot interceptors, the only weapon in its arsenal that can stop a ballistic missile.
WatchMore than ten explosions rolled across the Ukrainian capital overnight. At least 27 people were wounded, four of them children, in the second deadly barrage on Ukraine in two days.
NATO scrambled fighter jets after a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Polish airspace and came down in a field in Lublin province. Six members of one family, including three children, were killed near Kryvyi Rih.
American-made air defense interceptors becoming critically depleted as Moscow escalates missile strikes.
Moscow fired 73 missiles and 656 drones at Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv overnight, collapsing an apartment block and knocking out power for 140,000 people as Ukraine's depleted air defenses struggled to keep up.
Air defenses in Russian capital breached as Ukraine expands long-range strike capabilities, raising tensions ahead of significant military commemoration.
Attack on Russian capital high-rise building comes days before Victory Day celebration as Ukraine expands long-range strike capabilities.
Attack on Russian capital high-rise represents escalation in long-range strikes as Ukraine expands targeting of strategic locations.
WatchIran shot down a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle over Iranian territory and damaged an A-10 Warthog during a rescue mission, while Iranian drones set Kuwait's largest oil refinery ablaze as the conflict enters its fifth week with no end in sight.
Ukraine deployed 228 counter-drone specialists across five Gulf countries and signed 10-year contracts worth billions — part of a bid to exchange its battle-tested anti-drone experience for the Patriot interceptors that have become the scarcest weapons in the Iran war.
Two southern Israeli cities — Arad and Dimona, located near Israel's primary nuclear facility — were struck Saturday in the most damaging single-day attack on Israeli soil since the war began.
Two coordinated Iranian ballistic missile barrages hit the Israeli towns of Dimona and Arad on Saturday, wounding at least 90 people including a 10-year-old in serious condition, after Israel's Patriot and Arrow batteries failed to intercept the incoming missiles for the first time in the conflict.