RUSSIA claims to have launched a second deadly hypersonic missile, capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound, at Ukraine.

According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, powerful Kalibr cruise missiles were launched from ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea at Ukrainian military facilities.

Long-range precision weapons were reportedly used in strikes on the evening of March 19 and the morning of March 20.

The missiles were launched against Ukrainian military installations from Russian ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.

The strikes occurred in the city of Nizhyn, Chernihiv state, some 116 miles northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.

“Workshops at the Nizhyn repair plant used to repair Ukrainian armoured vehicles damaged in combat operations were destroyed using sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles launched from the seas of the Black Sea,” stated spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

He further claimed that Kalibr missiles launched from the Caspian Sea and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles launched from airspace over Crimea had destroyed a massive Ukrainian gasoline and lubricant storage complex near Kostayantynivka in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine.

According to Konashenkov, the base was used to feed fuel to Ukrainian armored vehicles on the battlefields in the country’s south.

NATO has given the Kalibr weapon the nickname “The Sizzler” since it can travel at up to five times the speed of sound.

He said that more missiles, including hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, were launched from Crimea to strike a Ukrainian fuel storage complex.

Although the launch of Kinzhal missiles on Sunday was not officially acknowledged, they were employed in western Ukraine yesterday.

Russia launched a ‘Kinzhal’ (Dagger) hypersonic missile on Saturday, marking the first time such a weapon has been utilized since the Ukraine conflict began.

A Russian hypersonic missile smashes an ammunition stockpile in western Ukraine, as recorded on video.

Moscow argues that western missile defense systems can’t stop its ‘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.

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.”

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.

The missile, which travels at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable by conventional air defense 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 unrivaled 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 centers near the port city of Odesa.

Moscow also claims to have hit a Ukrainian military training facility outside Lviv, where foreign fighters preparing to join Ukraine’s forces were stationed.

The Kremlin continues to deny that it is targeting civilian locations, as claimed by the West.

Thousands have died as a result of Russia’s invasion, which has displaced more than three million people and generated worries of a wider conflict with the United States, the world’s other nuclear power.

President Putin insists the “special military operation” – as he describes the invasion of Ukraine – is necessary because the US was using the country to threaten Russia.