Time Magazine:

Ukraine’s air defense system may not be able to withhold the threat of Russian warplanes as early as next month because of dwindling arms, according to newly-leaked Pentagon documents.

Russia has fired several hundred cruise missiles and launched hundreds of drones targeting Ukraine’s power grid since October. But while Ukraine largely kept its power sector running it has severely depleted its air-defense capacity in the process. Now, the country needs urgent assistance from Western allies to prevent an aerial onslaught from Russia.

“If Ukrainian air defense starts getting eroded to the point where they don’t have the capacity to engage, you could see Russian aircraft coming back into Ukrainian airspace,” says Ian Williams, deputy director of CSIS’s Missile Defense Project. “That’s dangerous because… Ukraine’s success in the war so far has been enabled by Ukraine’s air defenses.”

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