Early on Wednesday morning exhausted Ukrainian soldiers were engaged yet again in trying to stop Putin’s vicious attacks on their country.
It was 1am, Kyiv time, and they had been sending up high-speed interceptors to take out the Iranian-designed Shahed drones. Sometimes they were successful and sometimes the Russian missile got through – shattering apartment blocks, killing or maiming innocent civilians.
Then something inexplicable happened. The Ukrainians’ defences stopped working. They could send their interceptors up into the sky – but as soon as the operators tried to get them to speed up and close on the target, they lost signal.
It was
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