This time, Moscow claims to have destroyed a fuel depot in the south of the country. This is the second time in two days that Russia has claimed the use of this new type of missile.
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The Russian army continues its bombardments. Russia claimed on Sunday March 20, for the second consecutive day, to have used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine. “A large reserve of fuel was destroyed by Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea, as well as hypersonic ballistic missiles fired by the Kinjal aircraft system from Crimean airspace”the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
The ministry added that the strike occurred in the Mykolaiv region, but did not specify the date. According to the ministry, the destroyed target was “the main source of fuel supply for Ukrainian armored vehicles” deployed in the south of the country. The Kinjal (“dagger” in Russian) hypersonic ballistic missiles and the Zircon cruise missiles belong to a family of new weapons developed by Russia and which its president, Vladimir Putin, describes as“invincible”because they are supposed to be able to escape the opposing defense systems.
On Saturday, Moscow had already announced that it had fired Kinjal missiles in Ukraine the day before. If this shot were proven, it would be the first known use in real combat conditions of this system tested for the first time in 2018.