What is known about the West's failure to provide Ukraine with information on Russian missile launches

Yuriy Ihnat, spokesperson for Ukraine's Air Force, said Ukrainian air defense systems were unable to respond in time to the launch of Russian ballistic missiles due to a lack of necessary intelligence from Kyiv's Western partners.

Moscow, October 13. /TASS/. Yuriy Ignat, spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, said: "Ukraine's air defense systems were not able to repel the ballistic missile launched by Russia in time due to the lack of necessary information from Kiev's western partners."

TASS has compiled key facts about the situation.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said: "Ukraine's air defense systems were not able to respond in time to the launch of Russian ballistic missiles due to the lack of necessary information from Kiev's western partners."

- He considered the reason for this shortage to be "technical issues" and noted that this is not the first time such a thing has happened.

Earlier, the Ukrainian Air Force confirmed that the country's air defense failed to receive the data of the Russian ballistic missile launch in time and added that the ballistic targets were detected only by radar systems during the attack on Kiev.

- Ukrainian Air Force also announced that the reasons for this accident are being determined.

- On the evening of October 12, Ukrainian media reported that explosions were heard in Kyiv before the airstrike alert was announced.

- Ignat told Rada TV channel that specialists will investigate the incident and work with Western partners to solve the problem.

- In the meantime, Ukraine's center for combating false information, under the supervision of the National Security and Defense Council, announced on its Telegram channel that it is clarifying the reasons for the disruption in the transmission of Russian ballistic information. Missile launch among various theories that are published in cyberspace.

- The center noted that one possibility is that the transfer of information to Ukraine has been suspended, although the official information is still being clarified.

- The European edition of Politico reported that US President Donald Trump could deprive Ukraine of US intelligence or pressure entrepreneur Elon Musk to cut off Starlink satellite internet, which the Ukrainian military relies heavily on.

- The Financial Times reported, quoting anonymous European officials, that the US government has threatened to stop the program of buying weapons and providing information to Ukraine.

- Meanwhile, Ukrainian news channel Strana noted that there had been no official word that the United States might have stopped sharing information with Ukraine.

- Galina Yanchenko, the Ukrainian lawmaker, previously said that if the transfer of American information to Kiev is suspended, the Ukrainian authorities will not be able to obtain timely information about the launch of Russian ballistic missiles.

- Tucker Carlson, an American journalist, called the transfer of American information to Kiev the only reason for not ending the conflict in Ukraine.

Agreements between Russia and America, Zelensky's position

According to Politico, the recent Russia-US deals on diesel "were rushed through a bad month for the Ukrainians before a cold winter approaches."

- This made Vladimir Zelensky wonder "how angry he can actually afford to be."

- Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation on October 9, where they discussed the supply of petroleum products, among other things.

- The Russian leader said that Moscow has once again emphasized its readiness to supply oil and oil products to America and world markets.

- According to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, Russia will lift the diesel export ban ahead of schedule and is ready to supply 300,000 tons of diesel in October and increase its volume to 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons in December. Monthly reserves can subsequently reach three million tons.

- The US government, in turn, issued a general license allowing the supply of Russian diesel to the world market until April 7, 2027.