Ukraine restricts Russian missile strike data

Ukraine's air force said on August 12 that it would stop publishing detailed figures on Russian ballistic missile strikes as its forces struggle to intercept increased Russian attacks.

Yuriy Ignat, the air force communications chief, said the military leadership had decided to introduce restrictions in morning reports on Russian mass attacks. He said the limits concern the number of targets launched, shot down, suppressed or failing to reach their targets.

Ignat said real-time warnings would continue unchanged and that the air force would still provide generalised figures on Russian missile launches.

He said Russia fired more than 450 missiles of various types at Ukraine in July, nearly 200 of them on ballistic trajectories. Ballistic missiles are harder to intercept than cruise missiles or drones because of their speed and steep trajectory, and advanced systems such as US-made Patriots are among the few able to bring them down.

Kyiv has reported an acute shortage of Patriot interceptors. President Volodymyr Zelensky said air defence missile deliveries this year had fallen threefold compared with the same period of 2025.

Russia has hit Kyiv with mass barrages roughly once a week in recent weeks, killing civilians and damaging apartment blocks. In one attack, Ukraine failed to intercept any of the 28 ballistic missiles launched.