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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Joe Sommerlad

Ukrainian air defence could run out of missiles by May, leaked Pentagon files suggest

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Ukraine’s air defence systems could run out of missiles early next month in a major blow to the resistance effort fighting back against Russia’s invasion, according to a cache of US intelligence files that has been leaked online.

One document among the batch of as many as 100 seemingly stolen from the Pentagon, which is dated from February and marked as “secret”, estimates that Ukraine’s Soviet-era S-300 air defence systems face depletion by 2 May should the current rate of firing continue, according to The Guardian, although it is unclear whether that assessment still stands two months on.

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