Ukraine’s missile cemetery

The missiles line up like headstones: tipped on their sides, ordered by family and final resting date. Grass grows around them, where leaked fuel has not killed it. Walking among them is like browsing a catalogue of Russia’s war effort. There are cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, glide bombs, free-fall bombs and twisted components: wires, circuit boards, gyroscopes, lenses, casing and cladding. All of this metal fallen from the sky has been collected in a secret study centre near Kyiv. “If you are going to battle something,” says Colonel Mykola Danilyuk, “you need to first understand what you are dealing with.”