Putin had claimed Russia's hypersonic missiles were 'invulnerable to today's missile defense and air defense systems.'
Ukraine has confirmed it successfully shot down a Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile over Kyiv on Thursday, clarifying earlier conflicting reports over whether one of the state-of-the-art weapons had been destroyed.
Russia launched a wave of missile and drone attacks at Ukraine on Thursday, most of which were intercepted by air defense, one day afterin Moscow. Russian authorities said the drones were"a planned terrorist act" aimed at assassinating President Putin, though Kyiv has denied having any responsibility.
The outlet claimed the interception took place over Kyiv at 2:40 a.m. local time on May 4, with the Kinzhal being destroyed by a"western made air defense system."later said they couldn't say whether a hypersonic missile had been brought down over the capitol. On Saturday, Oleshchuk posted on Telegram confirming a Kinzhal had been destroyed by what he said was a U.S.-designed MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system.
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