Hypersonic or quasi-ballistic? Inside Russia's Zircon missiles terrorising Kyiv

Ukraine is still grappling with a severe shortage of air defence systems capable of bringing down ballistic missiles. Cruise missiles and Shahed one-way attack drones can be intercepted by most air defence systems or aircraft, but ballistic and hypersonic missiles are a different matter. Only two systems in Ukraine's arsenal – the Patriot and SAMP/T – can intercept them.

By Illia Volynskyi