Ukraine stops reporting Russia missile data as defenses struggle

Olesia Safronova, Bloomberg News on Aug 11, 2026

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Ukraine has stopped reporting how many missiles Russia fired during attacks, as it continues to appeal to allies to help strengthen its air defenses.

While the Air Defense Forces said 98 of 120 Russian drones were downed overnight, it omitted data on the number of missiles fired. That came days after it ceased reporting interceptions of ballistic missiles, following an attack last week in which Ukraine failed to stop any of 28 projectiles.

The Air Defense Forces has changed its reporting format as a security measure in response to Russian strikes, according to a person familiar with the matter, asking not to be identified because the matter is sensitive.

Ukraine is scrambling to obtain more interceptors from allies as it struggles to defend against intensified Russian air attacks in recent weeks. It’s particularly seeking more supplies for the U.S.-made Patriot system that’s most able to knock out Russian ballistic missiles, amid a surge in global demand sparked by the Middle East conflict.

A missile attack damaged a hospital building and businesses in Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday on the X platform. The city of Zaporizhzhia was struck by North Korean-supplied ballistic missiles as well as Russian Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, he said.

Shipments of air defense missiles to Ukraine from its allies have dropped threefold in the first half of the year compared with 2025, Zelenskyy said Aug. 5, after at least 17 people had been killed and dozens injured in Russian strikes that Kyiv’s forces were unable to knock out.

Ukraine intercepted 29 out of 195 Russian ballistic missiles fired in July while another 40 failed to reach their targets, according to data compiled by the Defense Ministry in Kyiv.

Ukraine is hitting back, targeting oil refineries and logistics warehouses deep inside Russia including those of e-commerce giant Wildberries, in a campaign aimed at inflicting economic damage and bringing the war closer to ordinary Russians.

“As of August 2026, 300+ long-range drones fly at the enemy every night,” Iryna Terekh, the chief executive officer of Ukraine’s Fire Point drone producer, said Tuesday on X. “Since the start of the year, Ukraine has launched twice as many deep strikes” into Russia as Moscow’s forces have fired at Ukraine, she said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted 396 Ukrainian drones overnight across 14 regions of the country and Crimea. Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

Drone strikes started fires at two warehouses in the southern Voronezh region overnight, regional Governor Alexander Gusev said on Telegram. Wildberries’ press service said later the fires had been extinguished and that goods were mostly undamaged.

“Russian forces are reprioritizing the production of their long-range strike systems to those that can more reliably penetrate Ukrainian air defenses,” the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said in an assessment Tuesday on X. “The Kremlin believes that it can exploit Ukraine’s shortage of interceptor missiles to avoid having to enter meaningful negotiations or make concessions on its maximalist demands.”