The time is 10.31am in central and I am people-watching from my bedroom window at the start of yet another air raid alert. Far below me pedestrians are still strolling, in the complacent way they do after two years of a war that is mostly fought elsewhere, or else not fought at this time of day.But it is always wrong to assume and, only seconds after the sirens have begun to wail, there is a succession of terrific explosions very close by.A Zircon hypersonic cruise missile — 's most advanced weapon — has been intercepted by Ukrainian air defence missiles over the heart of the metropolis, perhaps half a mile from my hotel.
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