Ukraine received no warnings from partners about missile attacks

Kyiv has been hit twice now in two nights by Russian ballistic missiles and Ukraine's president says the country has had no warning ahead of time from its foreign partners. Volodymyr Zelensky's comments are leading to a number of questions about whether the U.S. was still sharing intelligence information and what would happen if it stopped. Have we stopped sharing intel with Ukraine? No, we haven't. We are helping them and we are sharing intel. We want the war to end. The missiles launched Monday night came from the Bryansk region in Russia. But since there was no warning, there was no air alert so residents didn't know about the threat before they heard the explosions. In a few seconds there was like a lot of booms and I was really scared because I didn't know what is it. We didn't know that we need to immediately go to the shelter to save our life. Ukraine relies on warnings from its partners, particularly the U.S. which has access to space satellites, which can detect missile launches. In this case, Ukrainian officials say there was some kind of system failure, and they're looking into it. The system our partners use and the information they provide to us did not work for some reason, said a spokesperson for the Air Force. This is not the first time this has happened by a long shot. Ukraine's Air Force was clear that the U.S. hasn't stopped sharing intelligence, But there are serious concerns because there were multiple reports that said the U.S. was threatening to do just that and go even further by blocking Ukraine from buying U.S.-made weapons if it didn't stop attacking Russia's refineries. The U.S. has briefly cut off intelligence sharing before. It happened not long after this now infamous meeting between Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office. You're gambling with World War III. Security experts told me that if the U.S. cuts intelligence sharing again, it would be a problem, even though countries like the U.K. and France can fill in some of the gaps. The U.S. is just in its own league. The sheer volume of processing and analysis and just technical space-based signal intelligence. But Ukraine would not be completely naked, so to speak. Experts say warnings about incoming attacks aren't the only thing Ukraine urgently needs. It's desperately short of U.S.-made Patriot interceptors, which are able to take down the missiles.