Image shows an apartment building after a rocket strike in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on March 18, 2022. (Courtesy of National Police of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS)
Moscow: Russia used its newest 'Kinzhal' hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west, the Russian defense ministry said.
"The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition" in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region," the ministry said Saturday.
State news agency RIA Novosti said it was the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons during what Moscow calls a 'special military operation' in Ukraine.
In total, last night, Russia fired at 69 military installations on Ukrainian territory, according to Russian Defense Ministry, including 12 military warehouses and 43 military vehicle parking places.
