Russia used its most modern Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to break a weapons storage website in the country’s west, the Defense Ministry said.
Russia has in no way before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and nation news agency RIA Novosti stated it was once the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons throughout the combat in pro-Western Ukraine.
“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a giant underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a massive underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
A Defense Ministry spokesman declined to comment when reached with the aid of AFP.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed the Kinzhal (Dagger) missile “an ideal weapon” that flies at 10 times the velocity of sound and can overcome air-defense systems.
The Kinzhal missile was one of an array of new weapons Putin unveiled in his state-of-the-nation tackle in 2018.
Deliatyn, a village in the foothills of the picturesque Carpathian mountains, is positioned backyard the town of Ivano-Frankivsk.
The vicinity of Ivano-Frankivsk shares a 50-kilometer (30-mile) long border with NATO member Romania.
