The stunning 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 ‘Kinzhal’ rockets.

The footage, which was apparently shot by a military drone, shows the moment a deadly Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile struck a big Ukrainian weapons storage in Ivano-Frankivsk.

“A big underground storage housing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region was destroyed by the Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles,” Russia’s defence ministry said.

The “unstoppable” weapon was deployed on Friday, according to spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

The new Kinzhal is being employed for the first time in the battle, but it was previously “tested” in Syria under combat conditions.

Kinzhal missiles have a range of about 1,250 miles.

The missile, which travels at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable by conventional air defence systems, was previously dubbed “an ideal weapon” by President Putin.

Although the Kinzhal can carry nuclear weapons, this was a conventional attack.

According to Moscow, it has a range of 1,250 miles and is unrivalled in the West.

According to the Interfax news agency, Konashenkov also claimed that Russia used its Bastion coastal missile system to damage Ukrainian military radio and recon centres near the port city of Odesa.

Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that his country has “unprecedented” hypersonic missile stockpiles.

Russia also published new footage of its 7,000mph Zircon hypersonic bomb missile earlier this week, which could target London in five minutes.

The deadly weapon, which can carry either a conventional or nuclear bomb, was previously dubbed “unstoppable” by the Kremlin.

The deadly Kinzhal missiles were first disclosed by Putin in 2018 as part of a display of new Russian weaponry.

According to a defence expert, Russia’s use of military weapons was a reminder to both Ukraine and the West that it “had the capacity to escalate” the situation further.

“The Kinzhal’s speed puts it beyond the reach of any Ukrainian air defence system,” Dr James Bosbotinis told the BBC. “The launch platforms can launch from ranges beyond the reach of Ukraine.”

He stated that slamming the door “”Sending the message to Ukraine that Russia has the means to escalate this conflict further… is a high-value target” of an underground ammunition storage. It’s also a reminder to the west that Russia may, of course, lift the ante in Ukraine, and that the Kinzhal could be used if the conflict intensified and drew in outside powers “..

As the fight drags on, a desperate Putin has increasingly resorted to more devastating weaponry.

Near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv, Russia began dropping deadly “vacuum bombs” capable of exploding enemy troops’ lungs last month.

As Putin pushed his war west, four Russian cruise missiles blasted into a major airfield in the city of Lviv yesterday.

The warheads, which weighed a total of 1,600 kilogrammes and were launched from a distance of more than 400 kilometres, were the first strike on the old city.

Diplomats, humanitarian workers, refugees, and journalists had regarded it as a comparatively safe haven.

The hit, according to Britain’s Armed Forces Minister James Heappey, demonstrated that Russia was expanding its murderous assault on Ukraine.

As the Kh-555 cruise missiles zeroed in from Russian bombers over the Black Sea, air raid sirens rang across Lviv shortly after 6 a.m.

Two were shot down by air defence systems, but four collided with two aircraft and bus repair plants less than four miles from the city centre.

Fire engines and ambulances rushed to the scene after a large fire broke out. However, because the personnel had departed minutes before, a severe loss of life was prevented. Surprisingly, only one person was hurt.

Fighting entered the heart of the beleaguered southern city of Mariupol Tuesday, stranding up to 350,000 inhabitants with little food or water.

Russia’s defence ministry published a terrifying statement, stating that its forces are “tightening the noose” around the port city.

Following a Russian attack on a theatre in the city where hundreds were sheltering in an improvised bomb shelter, more than 130 people have been rescued.

Street fighting was delaying rescue personnel from reaching hundreds of residents trapped in the theatre’s basement, according to Vadym Boychenko, the city’s mayor.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said there was no new information on casualties in the city early Saturday, but that it was experiencing “the worst ordeal in its history.”

He urged for immediate “serious, fair” peace talks in a video message.

He warned Moscow that a long war would result in so many Russian casualties that the country would need millennia to recover.

“The only option for Russia to mitigate the harm from its own blunders is meaningful, fair, and timely negotiations on peace and security for us, for Ukraine,” he said.

Fighting is expected to resume this weekend in Mariupol, Mykolaiv, and Kherson in the south, as well as Izyum in the east.

Following Russia’s “morally indefensible technique” of annexing Crimea, a former head of Britain’s armed forces has backed calls for Putin to face a “Nuremberg-type trial” akin to that faced by the Nazis after World War II.

“These young men are completely befuddled,” he continued, “many of them are extremely young, terrified, and fatigued from weeks of exercise.”

After making little progress in nearly four weeks of warfare, Russian troops have resorted to the “morally indefensible technique of shelling defenceless civilians,” according to Dannett.