Credit: Telegram/Censor.net Until this weekend, the prevailing narrative in the Russia-Ukraine war was that Vladimir Putin was on the back foot. Ukraine’s long-range drones struck four miles from the Kremlin. Russia’s victory day parade was only possible because Volodymyr Zelensky agreed not to attack it. Putin now spends much of his time in underground bunkers. The Russian people are frustrated and worried in equal measure as the war is thrust upon them at home. Looking to arrest the decline, Putin fired 90 of his biggest, most damaging missiles at Kyiv. On Sunday, every one of the Ukrainian capital’s districts was hit, by Kh-101 cruise missiles, Iskander-M/S-400s, Kh-47M2 Kinzhals, 3M22 Zircons and one hypersonic Oreshnik. Russia fired 83 missiles throughout May 2025. At the weekend, it surpassed that in one barrage. Moscow was willing to ransack its reserves to send a message. The package of missiles and drones cost some £268m, including the £37m cost of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile that hit the town of Bila Tserkva, some 50 miles south of Kyiv, in only its …