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Zelensky reports another missing missile warning

Published 20 October 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told U.S. lawmakers that a Russian ballistic-missile attack’s first wave arrived without an advance warning, calling it the third such gap in a short period. The account renewed a dispute over U.S. intelligence support, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio said had not been paused. Zelensky made the warning claim during an online meeting with bipartisan members of Congress on October 19. He said Ukraine had received no clear explanation for the missing alert. His office did not provide dates for the two earlier instances. The reports do not establish what caused the latest gap or whether the incidents shared a cause. Rubio said there had been no pause in intelligence sharing. Asked about the latest missing alert, he said he could not account for what happened that night. He also said a software problem had affected Ukraine’s early-warning system several nights earlier and that U.S. European Command had examined it, but did not identify it as the cause of the latest gap. Zelensky separately said in an interview that intelligence information had temporarily stopped and was flowing again. The accounts differ on whether sharing was...

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