Russia announced on Sunday that its Armed Forces used hypersonic missiles during its military operation in Ukraine.
During his briefing, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, said that the Kalibr and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles had been fired at targets in Ukraine.
He affirmed that the missiles targeted and destroying a large warehouse for storing fuel and lubricants belonging to the Ukrainian army in the vicinity of the town of Kostyantynivka in Mykolaiv Province in southern Ukraine.
Konashenkov stated that the depot was used to organise the main fuel supply to Ukrainian armoured vehicles in the combat zones in the south of the country.
The Russian Armed Forces earlier this week announced the first operational use of the Kinzhal missile in active military duty, targeting an arms storage unit in Deliatyn. The Kinzhal is a state-of-the-art hypersonic ballistic air-to-surface missile with an operational range of over 2,000 km, which is reportedly nearly non-interceptable by existing air defence systems.
