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The combatants are producing ever larger numbers of innovative aerial weapons, hoping for a breakthrough as ground combat is largely frozen. Marc Santora reported from Kyiv and Odesa in Ukraine. As the front line in Ukraine calcifies into a bloody deadlock, the future trajectory of the war is being shaped in the skies. This air war is an all-encompassing contest stretching from a few yards above scorched tree lines to satellites in low-earth orbit. Its physical toll is etched in fire across the landscape by missiles and drones, though much of the fight remains unseen, in the race to deploy artificial intelligence and control a spectrum of radio waves.
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In July, Moscow fired at least 126 ballistic missiles — a wartime high, according to a New York Times analysis of Ukrainian Air Force data. About 400 civilians died last month in Russia’s barrages, which included cruise missiles and drones, making it the deadliest month since April 2022.
