he asked in a local community group on Thursday, after learning that Russia hit his home village in southern Ukraine with a ballistic missile. “It was an ordinary home, blown into smithereens by a ballistic missile,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said of the attack. Authorities were still trying to locate the other four people known to have been in the house when the missile struck. Contrary to evidence from the ground in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed its attacks were targeting military sites. Russia’s powerful ballistic missiles are incredibly difficult for Ukraine to intercept because they travel at extremely high speeds.