Russia’s Attacks on Ukraine Kyiv. Russia launched 14 ballistic missiles and dozens of drones at Ukraine’s capital overnight on March 24. It's one of the biggest combined aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital of the three-year war,

While NATO supports Ukraine’s self-defense against Russia and is not a direct belligerent, the risk of the conflict escalating into a NATO-Russia war persists. -Moscow consistently frames the war as a confrontation with the West and has issued nuclear threats.

A telephone call between the two leaders was the latest chapter in a flurry of diplomatic maneuvering over ending the three-year conflict.