Ukraine's air force has stopped publishing how many missiles Russia fires at the country each night, Bloomberg reported on August 11, as Kyiv's stock of interceptor missiles runs dry.

The Ukrainian air force's overnight reports no longer specify missile numbers, contrary to previous practice - a change a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg was introduced as a "security measure," without elaborating. The shift came days after Ukraine's air defences failed to intercept a single one of 28 missiles Russia launched overnight on August 5, and follows a similar failure on July 30, when Ukraine could not down a single Tsirkon hypersonic missile.

Russia's reported July 2026 missile production against estimated early-August stockpiles. Source: Institute for the Study of War.

The reporting change lands as Kyiv scrambles to secure more Patriot interceptors from allies, the only effective defence Ukraine has against ballistic missiles. US President Donald Trump refused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's request for hundreds of interceptors during a recent meeting, the Financial Times has reported, while the European Commission has appealed to EU states still holding air-defence missiles to hand them over. US stockpiles of Patriot interceptors have themselves been depleted by the parallel war with Iran.

The change is a small but telling data point in a broader pattern bne has tracked through the summer: the targets of Russia's missile campaign have stayed much the same, but what stops them has steadily eroded. Withholding the raw missile count doesn't change that underlying math - it just makes it harder for the public, and potentially for Russia's own targeting analysts, to see exactly how badly the gap has widened.