During the night of January 9, beginning at 19:30 on January 8, russia carried out a large-scale combined strike against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, employing a mix of attack drones and missiles launched from both sea- and land-based platforms. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the primary direction of the assault was Kyiv region.

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As of 09 a.m., preliminary data indicate that Ukrainian air defenses destroyed or suppressed 244 aerial targets. These included 226 attack drones, eight Iskander-M or S-400 ballistic missiles, and 10 Kalibr cruise missiles, demonstrating a high interception rate despite the scale of the assault.

Nevertheless, the attack was not fully neutralized. Impacts were recorded involving 18 missiles and 16 attack drones across 19 locations, resulting in damage to infrastructure.

While this attack must have been terrifying especially the ballistic missile strikes don’t let the broader picture slip by in the anxiety and emotion of war.

The flipside of the coin of large missiles being used in this attack is that they are also slow to produce, these kinds of weapons have to be stockpiled and saved up for burst attacks. This attack was intended as a flex and Ukraine still shot down the vast majority of flying bombs and a large amount of missiles during it.