Russia’s missile massacre: The West must flood Ukraine with patriot interceptors before winter

Published June 15, 2026 9:00am ET



Last week, Russia launched the largest airstrikes of the war so far, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles to strike targets across Ukraine. Civilian targets seem to be Moscow’s preference. Sometimes, Russians will even strike a residential building, wait a few hours for first responders to arrive, and then purposely strike the same location again.

This savage way of war, first perfected by Russia against the people of Grozny in the 1990s, and later refined with its atrocities in Bucha, is now being delivered from the skies against Ukrainian civilians.

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