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Russia also claims that Moskva wasn't hit by Ukrainian missiles.

Evading ABM isn't easy. You need to generate delta-V to move out of the way, and then be able to get back into target, all the while not knowing if an interceptor is actually going to be coming or when.

ABM is harder than it used to be, but that's because we decided we didn't want to use nukes on interceptors. And that's because we don't want to have to get the president to release nukes to be able do the intercept. Which means we can launch when we think there's an incoming missile without much of an issue, and our reaction time is decreased.

There's nothing in the way our interceptors work that make 1000 harder than 10, aside from the fact that we don't have 1000. On the flipside, the 40 or so we do have, that are likely to kill about 10 incoming warheads. But the Russians don't know which 10. So every target they decide they have to kill needs 11 warheads, not 1. Which man's they can hit 10% of the targets they used to be able to. Or accept that some of the targets they think they should kill won't be dead.

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The people who make the claims that ABM is super hard and ineffective against large strikes are generally American experts who used to work in the field.