I left my phone on overnight with the air raid alert active, expecting it to give me a blaring warning.
I woke up at 3:58 a.m. to a sound I had never heard in my life: the heavy, shuddering concussions of ballistic missiles and attack drones slamming into buildings near my hotel in Kyiv. But ballistic missiles travel at many multiples of the speed of sound. By the time the siren actually went off, the impacts had already struck their civilian targets.
