NATO is panicking over its Hypersonic missile gap. Russia just stopped a massive assault on Sevastopol with a full package of NATO's most advanced, fastest (nearly Mach 1) cruise missiles of the Scalp/Storm Shadow variety.
Meanwhile, Kiev is protected by NATO's most advanced air defense systems, from Patriot, NASAMs, SAMP-T, Iris-T, Crotale, Aspides, upgraded Mim-23 Hawks, Avenger, Stormer HVM, etc., and all are utterly useless against Russian hypersonic Iskanders, Kinzhals, and Zircons, which penetrate them as easily as a bee taking nectar from a flower.
This is why NATO will never enter the war in Ukraine, because the current missile gap would allow Russia to strike NATO bases in Poland and elsewhere with full impunity, destroying every target, while NATO's counter attacks against Russia would fail against superior Russian air defenses, which would shoot down 70-90% of NATO's attacks.