Russia link used its newest Kinzhal hypersonicmissiles link for the firsttime in Ukraine link on Friday to destroya weapons storage site in the country’s west, the defence ministry said.
Russia link has never before admitted usingthe high-precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti saidit was the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons during the conflictin pro-Western Ukraine link.
“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missilesdestroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviationammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region”, theRussian defence ministry said Saturday.
A defence ministry spokesman declined to comment when reached by AFP.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed the Kinzhal (Dagger) missile”an ideal weapon” that flies at 10 times the speed of sound and canovercome air-defence systems.
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The Kinzhal missile was one of an array of new weapons Putin unveiled inhis state-of-the-nation address in 2018.
Deliatyn, a village in the foothills of the picturesque Carpathianmountains, is located outside the city of Ivano-Frankivsk.
The region of Ivano-Frankivsk shares a 50-kilometre (30-mile) long borderwith NATO member Romania.
