Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed ‘unstoppable’ Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, destroying a weapons storage site, the defense ministry said.
State news agency RIA Novosti said that it was Russia’s first time to use hypersonic weapons since the invasion started.
Moscow claims that the ‘Khinzal’ weapons are ‘unstoppable’ by Western weapons.
Russian defense ministry said on Saturday: “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.”
Russian Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said that Russian forces attacked Ukrainian military facilities with anti-ship missile system Bastion.
Video shared by the Russian forces claimed to show the missile strike and people on the ground can be seen fleeing as the explosion sent earth, flames and debris into the air.
Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuri Ignat said that a storage site was targeted, adding that Kyiv had no information about the type of missile used by the invaders.
“The enemy targeted our depots’ but ‘we have no information of the type of missile,” he said.
“There has been damage, destruction and the detonation of munitions. They are using all the missiles in their arsenal against us.”
Since the invasion started on February 24, most of the attacks have taken place in the east of Ukraine as Russian forces struggle to make gains further.
But there have been signs of more western strikes, with a citizen being killed in a missile attack near Lviv – where thousands of Ukrainians have fled to.
Kyiv claims Russians have suffered almost 15,000 casualties while American sources report that 7,000 soldiers have died, including four major generals and several senior officers.
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