Site of a Russian missile strike on a goods storage facility in Kiev
Guardian Staff and Agencies – Guardian Aug 6, 2026
After Ukraine failed to shoot down a single ballistic missile fired by Russia on Wednesday, the president urged allies to increase supplies of Patriot interceptors
Nato is working to get Ukraine the air defences it “urgently needs”, its secretary general has said, after Kyiv failed to shoot down a single Russian missile in an attack on Wednesday, and as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was seeking to significantly boost missile production ahead of winter.
Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on winter resilience, the Ukrainian president did not rule out the idea that stalling missile supplies from western allies were “aimed at making Ukraine, so to speak, more willing to compromise” in peace talks with Russia.
After meeting Nato’s Mark Rutte, Zelenskyy said: “It is important to cut through all red tape and make the necessary political decisions. Literally every day, people’s lives here in Ukraine depend on the resolve of our partners in Europe and the United States.”
Russia launched 24 ballistic missiles in an overnight attack on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people. Preliminary data from the Ukrainian air force showed its defences shot down 98 of the 115 drones fired by Russia overnight, but none of the ballistic missiles.
On Wednesday, Zelenskyy said that in the first half of 2026, supplies of air defence missiles from Ukraine’s allies had fallen to a third of their 2025 level.
The president also warned that Moscow was looking to significantly increase ballistic missile production as winter neared, when it is expected to renew its campaign against Ukraine’s energy sector.
Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine’s president on the development of defence technology, estimated that Russia was capable of launching 100 ballistic missiles every month to attack logistic hubs, industrial facilities, food stores and warehouses. “The war of attrition has entered its next phase,” he said on the Telegram app.
Ukraine has been short on US-made Patriot interceptors capable of downing Russian ballistic missiles since the start of the war. But in recent weeks, an acute shortage has come into focus, with Moscow pummelling Kyiv, on average, every three days in July alone. Zelenskyy said the shortage of interceptor missiles was mainly caused by the war in the Middle East.
Patriot missile systems are the only system in Ukrainian service able to intercept the Russian Iskander-M, S-400 and Zircon missiles, according to the Ukrainian air force.
Russia often combines ballistic missiles with cruise missiles, drones and decoys, forcing defenders to track many threats and ration scarce interceptors, but Ukraine says it has too few batteries and interceptors to properly protect itself.
The interceptor shortage has become more acute as a result of the US-Israel war on Iran, which has consumed large numbers of Patriot and other interceptors. An analysis by the Associated Press estimated that the US Patriot inventory had fallen by at least 65% since before the war. The Pentagon claims it retains a deep arsenal of supplies.
Production cannot immediately close the gap. Lockheed Martin delivered more than 600 of the newest model of interceptors in 2025 and is working toward annual capacity of 2,000 by the end of 2030. But according to some estimates, Gulf states collectively fired more than 1,100 interceptors in the first three months of the Iran war.
Nato says Europe’s first Patriot missile production facility is expected to open in September in Germany.
Political signals from Washington have also shifted. At a Nato summit last month, Donald Trump said the US would give Ukraine a licence to produce Patriots. About three weeks later, he said he had not made a final decision. Even with a licence, officials and experts estimate that starting production in Ukraine would take years.
Despite Trump casting doubt on the deal last month, the US is pressing ahead with talks on allowing Ukraine to make Patriot interceptors, according to reports from Reuters.
The discussions include an option for Ukraine to build some components for final assembly elsewhere in Europe, according to the report.
Labour loses one member every eight minutes
Story by Dominic Penna
The Labour Party lost one member every eight minutes last year, figures reveal.
Their refusal to stop importing migrants and send them home plus they ignoted the mass rape of young kids up north
6 have never been found
The party recorded a total membership of 264,754 at the end of December – down by 68,481, or 20.55 per cent, from the previous year.
A party report, published by the Electoral Commission, revealed that membership stood at its lowest for a decade at 264,754 at the end of December. That was down from 333,235 at the end of 2024 – 68,481, or 20.55 per cent and equivalent to one member leaving around every eight minutes.
The figure marked Labour’s lowest membership total in 12 years and reflected a torrid year for Sir Keir Starmer that was dominated by scandals racism rent boys and about-turns on policy.
The party’s membership peaked at 564,443 in 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn, and has steadily fallen since 2019,
The selection of Andy Burnham could have been faked
> Literally every day, people’s lives here in Ukraine depend on the resolve of our partners in Europe and the United States
You can’t have too much busification.
It’s funny how the Russians can turn out boom-booms like anything but the Americans can only make two and a half a year.
Here you have the lovely ragheads laughing about damaging people for the rest of their lives:
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/08/06/773864/Iran-US-Israel-TBIs-Trump-
And here you have another part of the tribe pretending to attack a third part of the tribe:
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/08/07/773881/Yemen-strikes-Saudi-mercenaries
The headline of that is “Fresh Yemeni attacks leave at least 58 Saudi-backed mercenaries dead”.
58! 5 + 8 = 13! Hoorah…
I wonder how far back you’d have to go to find some truth somewhere. My guess is, the first thing a mother now says to her newborn is “That pee pee is a muff”.
Z never ‘pleads’ for anything, he demands and extorts from his Western sponsors. From client to malign parasite. Sponsors, notably the EU arm of NATO are desperate to continue the war forever as it is their sole guarantor of power. It is they who are pleading with Z ” Please keep the home fires burning, keep sending the remaining men who can’t afford bribes, off to die for freedom and democracy” Thus the little diktator obliges and cosmetically re-shuffles his govt under the pretence of rooting out corruption. Musical Shares. Ensuring greater corruption shares for himself and close cronies, no opposition thank you, this forever war ….
He’s been given every weapon asked for, all of which were paraded as game-changers , all the intelligence data and technical assistance NATO can muster. But still, give me more or else…. Ukie has been broke (its people at least) ever since it claimed it was ‘independent’ in 1991. Totally dependent on IMF, World Bank, US, Russian, EU loans none of which have ever been repaid. Now near 400 billion € from the EU since 2022 alone. Give me more, your poster-boy your creation in your image! And you wonder why products are disappearing in EU shops, why your electricity, water, heating bills are now so huge and why petrol and diesel are so costly. Must be Climate Change…the Wind of Change needs to blow through Europe before it burns itself up not from wildfires but from supporting this Russophobic crusade.
Expect more!
I realy enjoy the mass fleaproblems german
warmongers now suffering :
expensive US fracking gas instead of Putins cheap .
BRD not interested in Nordstream investigation
since it discovers dirt on their NAhTOd alliieds .
Industry, car, machinery production go down .
mass unimployment . rising invader costs .
rising housing rents . more homeless .
less rain, river droughts, less cargo transport
through it . all food + goods costs rise .
trains + streets not able to help adequately .
but everything must be done to get the war to BRD .
GERMANS DONT STANDUP
THEY VOTE THEIR WARMONGERS + TRAITORS
THEY BELIEVE EVERYTHING THEIR JEW MSM
SAYS . like drone LANDED on Leipzig aerport .