Russia released it’s “Unstoppable” Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine, the defence ministry says today, destroying a weapons storage site in the country’s west on Friday.
Although, Russia has never before admitted Using the high precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti says it was first time use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons during the conflict in pro western Ukraine.
Moscow had claimed the Kinzhal or Dagger is unstoppable by current western weapons, The middle, which has range of 1,250 miles, is nuclear capable. This was a conventional strike.
The Kinzhal missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and avaition ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano Frankivsk region.
Russian Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov also said that Russian forces used the anti ship missile system Bastion to strike Ukrainian Military Facilities near the Black Sea Port of Odessa.
The weapon was used by Russia during it’s military campaign in Syria in 2016 to support the Assad regime. Some of the most intense bombings came in 2016 during the battle for Aleppo, resulting in deaths of hundreds of civilians.
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