Baku/19.03.22/ The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the first time announced the use of hypersonic weapons during hostilities in Ukraine. The department announced this in a morning briefing.
“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground ammunition depot in the Ivano-Frankivsk region,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
According to him, Russian troops also struck Bastion coastal missiles at electronic intelligence centers in the Odessa region.
In December 2021, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the appearance of a separate aviation regiment armed with MiG-31K aircraft with the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. In the autumn of that year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the country began to create hypersonic weapons “in response to the US deployment of a strategic missile defense system”, novayagazeta.ru. reported—0—
