Russia appears to have altered its missiles to better evade Ukrainian defense systems — with interception rates plummeting since August in what experts fear may be a “game changer for Russia,” according to reports.

Ukrainian defense systems stopped just 6% of Russian ballistic missiles in September, an alarming decline from the 37% interception rate logged just a month earlier.

That decline comes as Russia’s ballistic missiles have been behaving differently at the end of their flight paths, with Ukrainian officials reporting the projectiles have begun making last-minute maneuvers apparently intended to “confuse and avoid” interception systems, the Financial Times reported .

A Ukrainian neighborhood on the outskirts of Kyiv devastated by a Russian missile strike on September 28. REU

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