The hours-long barrage included the launch of an advanced ballistic Oreshnik missile, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, at Bila Tserkva, a city of 200,000 people some 50 miles south of Kyiv.
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“They are waging war solely against our people – against our memory, our history, and everything that makes up normal human life,” Zelensky wrote on X Sunday. “It is important that Russia understands that they will be held accountable for all these crimes.
Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, called the use of the Oreshnik missile a “political scare-tactic and reckless nuclear-brinkmanship.” This is the third time the Oreshnik has been used in the conflict: first in Dnipro in November 2024, and then again earlier this year in the Lviv region. The missile is a nuclear-capable, intermediate-range hypersonic missile that can hit targets nearly 3,500 miles away.
Russia accused Ukraine of a deadly drone attack on Friday that hit a student dormitory in Starobilsk, a Russian-controlled city in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, killing 21 people and injuring 42 others.
Struggling to shoot down missiles
Ukrainian Air Defense Forces claimed on Sunday that it jammed 549 drones and 55 missiles, while around 19 missiles failed to reach targets.
Ukraine is currently experiencing a shortage of air defense missiles that it would usually use to shoot down Russian missiles. U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles have been especially effective against Russian missile attacks, but Kyiv has run low as the U.S. and its Gulf allies burned through stockpiles to defend against missile and drone attacks from Iran.
Zelensky has said that any Patriot missiles launched elsewhere in the world affect Ukraine’s own supply and has called on Europe to work towards defense independence.
The use of the Oreshnik missiles poses an even more complex problem for Ukraine: the country has no missiles to defend against it, and even the Patriot system was not designed to counter something of its speed.
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