The dramatic moment a Russian hypersonic missile strikes an ammo stockpile in western Ukraine is captured on video.
Moscow maintains that Western missile defence systems can’t stop its lethal ‘Kinzhl’ rockets.
A big Ukrainian weapons storage in Ivano Frankivsk was hit by a lethal Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile, according to a video shot by a military drone.
Russia’s defense ministry said: “The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.”
Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the “unstoppable” weapon was deployed on Friday.
It is the first known time the new Kinzhal has been used in the conflict, but it was earlier “tested” in Syria in war conditions.
Kinzhal missiles have an estimated range of 1,250 miles.
President Putin earlier branded the missile “an ideal weapon” that flies at 10 times the speed of sound and cannot be brought down by conventional air-defence systems.
Although the Kinzhal is nuclear capabilities, this was a conventional attack.
It has a 1,250-mile range, according to Moscow, and no counterpart in the West.
According to the Interfax news agency, Konashenkov also claimed that Russia used its Bastion coastal missile system to attack Ukrainian military radio and recon centres near the port city of Odesa.
Moment Russia has started a war. Ukrainian weapons warehouse’
Last month, President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia had stockpiled “unparalleled” hypersonic missiles.
And earlier this week, Russia released chilling new footage of its 7,000 mph Zircon hypersonic nuclear missile that could hit London in five minutes.
The Kremlin had previously branded the deadly weapon, which carries a conventional or nuclear warhead, “unstoppable.”
Putin first announced the deadly Kinzhal missiles as part of a display of new Russian weaponry in 2018.
At the time, Putin said of the West: “They need to take account of a new reality and understand that this is not a bluff.”
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