Ukraine receives Patriot missiles as Zelenskyy seeks fivefold increase in US air defence

On the 1,644th day of a war that has long since outgrown its original borders, Ukraine's president announced the quiet arrival of American Patriot interceptors — too few to name, from a source he would not disclose — while Russia's fuel economy buckled further under the weight of Ukrainian drone strikes on its refineries. The conflict now reaches into British fishing villages, German cargo airports, and Swedish archipelagos, reminding the world that modern wars do not confine themselves to front lines. What unfolds is not merely a contest of territory, but a slow, grinding test of which societ