Another overnight attack killed at least 17 people in and around Kyiv. The strikes come as Ukraine faces a growing shortage of the interceptor missiles used to defend the capital. Transcript AILSA CHANG, HOST: Overnight, Russia launched another round of deadly ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and surrounding areas. It's the latest in a series of large-scale Russian attacks this summer. Ukrainian officials say the attacks are becoming even more dangerous because Ukraine is running low on air defense weapons that protect the capital. To get a sense of what life is like in Kyiv right now, we called up Dmytro Hainetdinov. He's the deputy director of Ukraine's World War II history museum, which is documenting the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Welcome.DMYTRO HAINETDINOV: Hello.CHANG: Hi. So, Dmytro, can you just take me back to last night? Where were you when the missiles first started hitting? And what did those first few moments feel like?HAINETDINOV: Yeah. It was quite a typical situation. So our family was almost sleeping. It was, like, maybe half past 12, in the midnight, when we heard the notification on our smartphones that the air alert started. So ...

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