Kiev under missile-drone raid: the air defenses have run out of ammunition and missiles.
One problem too many for Kiev?
If you look at the surface, Ukraine doesn’t seem to be doing so bad. Leader Volodymyr Zelensky is still cruising the world with the same studied smile and the same defiance.
However, if you look deeper, the full picture of the desperate situation facing the Kiev regime comes into focus.
A non-exhausting list of very grave problems begins with the financial situation, with a humongous hole in the budget, no more US funds and confusing funding promises by the EU: France Is Trying To Keep Ukraine From Buying US Weapons With $100 Billion EU Loan.
Then, of course, there’s the territorial issue: Russian forces are preparing to move on the last bastions in the all-important Donetsk region, the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration. There are also advances in the Zaporozhie region towards the 800,000-dweller capital.
Power and heating are perhaps the most dramatic aspects, as Ukrainians are enduring a Winter in the Cold and Dark, as Relentless Russian Strikes Take Power Generation and Energy Grid to the Brink.
People and human resources are another insolvable problem, dealing with mass desertions and 2 million draft dodgers.
And don’t even get us started on corruption, with a ‘golden toilet’ scandal still fresh on the country’s memory.
Zelensky and his problems.
This list, terrifying as it is, is only a tip of the iceberg.
There’s also the present crippling shortage of air defense ammunitions.
Ukraine has serious problems with air defence ammunition — as of this morning, several systems were left without missiles
Volodymyr Zelensky said this at a press conference after meeting with Czech President Petr Pavel.
The ammunition has now arrived. However, each such aid… pic.twitter.com/xzL6qdUSk8
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) January 16, 2026
Yesterday (16), Zelensky called on the country’s allies yet again to bolster its defense systems to protect its critical energy infrastructure amid ongoing Russian attacks.
Euronews reported:
“Some air defense systems provided by Western allies had run out of ammunition during a critical moment as Russia launched its latest wave of attacks on Ukraine’s civilian and infrastructure targets, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday.
‘Until this morning we had several systems without missiles. Today I can say this openly, because today I have those missiles’, Zelenskyy told reporters on Friday at a press conference in Kiev.”
In Zelenskys’ latest public announcement, he stated that Ukraine lacks air defense missiles.
Because of this, he advised residents not to discount upcoming air alerts. pic.twitter.com/xx4K9vW8fG
— Heyman_101 (@SU_57R) January 16, 2026
“In recent months, Russia has intensified its campaign against the country’s energy grid, in an effort to cut off power and heating in the height of winter. Kiev, in particular, has become a primary target.
[…] Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned Kyiv had roughly half the electricity it needs, local media reported, and has previously urged residents to temporarily leave the city as a precaution.”
And that’s without mentioning the new hypersonic Oreshnik missiles, that allegedly can’t be intercepted by any existing air defense system. WATCH:
BREAKING
Ukraine Lyviv Oblast
Ukraine confirms that the missile that hit the Lviv region flew at a speed of about 13,000 km/h along a ballistic trajectory.
It makes it clear that an Oreshnik IRBM with MIRV technology was used in the attack.
It’s the second time an ICBM or… pic.twitter.com/VoXsd3sXgd
— Frankie (@B7frankH) January 9, 2026
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