The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a Russian hypersonic missile “Kindzhal” hit the American Patriot anti-missile system in Kyiv.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement: “The Kinzhal hypersonic missile hit the American Patriot anti-missile system in the city of Kyiv with a high-precision strike.”
The statement added: On Tuesday night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a highly accurate concentrated strike with long-range weapons from the air and sea at the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as at places and warehouses for storing ammunition. , weapons and military equipment, which were supplied from Western countries.
On Tuesday night, a large-scale air alert was announced in Kyiv. Where the MIM-104 Patriot air defense system was activated, however, eyewitnesses said they heard powerful explosions at the location of this system. According to local media and activists.
A source in the Russian Defense Ministry has previously denied claims that the American Patriot system managed to shoot down the Russian Kindzhal hypersonic missile, stressing that its technical characteristics refute this claim.
The source explained in previous statements: “The truth is that the flight speed of the Kinnzhal missile exceeds the maximum combat modes of the anti-aircraft missile systems provided by the West to the Kiev regime, including the Patriot, since the Kinzhal performs, on the last stage of its flight anti-missile maneuver and an almost vertical approach to the target, which excludes the possibility of interception by anti-aircraft missile systems.
Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said at a recent press briefing that Ukraine shot down a Russian Kinzhal missile using a Patriot missile defense system handed over to it.
Source: RT, Russian Ministry of Defense
