Ukraine was hit with barrages of ballistic missiles from Russia this week, and on one night this week, at least 17 people in Ukraine were killed. Russia is said to have launched 126 ballistic missiles at Ukraine in the month of July alone, the most in any month since the initial Russian invasion in 2022. He pointed to one Russian attack, on June 30, that featured a wide variety of different weaponry — four anti-ship missiles, nine ballistic missiles, 61 cruise missiles, and close to 300 strike drones. Also on Thursday, Mykola Bielieskov of the Atlantic Council wrote an op-ed arguing that Ukraine cannot defeat the blitz of Russian ballistic missiles “by defensive measures alone.” This would involve either hunting ballistic missile launchers or possibly even Ukraine developing its own ballistic missile capabilities.