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Kyiv said it struck the radar of the S-400 surface-to-air battery, considered to be broadly equivalent to the U.S. military's Patriot air-defense system, overnight. Each system costs around $200 million, an expert with the London-based Royal United Services Institute defense think tank previously told Newsweek.

Whether the fighting pauses this year or not, Ukraine’s sovereignty depends on its being armed to the teeth. For the next two years at least, argues Jack Watling of the Royal United Services Institute, this will be hard without American artillery and logistics.

Two strategic missile strikes are not enough to change the course of war, however. “The military value of both weapons is limited by the fact that there are only limited numbers of Atacms and Storm Shadow,” said Matthew Savill, the director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank.