Ukraine says it downed several Russian hypersonic missiles in 'exceptional' attack
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Ukraine said on Tuesday it had shot down six Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles in a single night, thwarting a super-weapon Moscow had previously touted as all but unstoppable.
It was the first time Ukraine had claimed to have struck an entire volley of multiple hypersonic missiles, and if confirmed, it would be a demonstration of the effectiveness of newly deployed Western air defences.
Air raid sirens blared across nearly all of Ukraine early on Tuesday and were heard over Kyiv and its region for more than three hours.
"The enemy's mission is to sow panic and create chaos. However, in the northern operational zone [including Kyiv], everything is under complete control," said Gen. Serhiy Naev, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces.
The six Kinzhals — ballistic missiles that travel at up to 10 times the speed of sound — were among a volley of 18 missiles Russia fired at Ukraine overnight, lighting up Kyiv with flashes and raining debris after they were blasted from the sky.
Russia's defence ministry said it had destroyed a U.S.-built Patriot surface-to-air missile defence system with a Kinzhal missile, the Zvezda military news outlet reported.
But the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said all of the Kinzhals had been successfully intercepted.
Zaluzhnyi said his forces had intercepted the six Kinzhals launched from aircraft, as well as nine Kalibr cruise missiles from ships in the Black Sea and three Iskanders fired from land.
Earlier this month, Ukraine claimed to have shot down a single Kinzhal missile over Kyiv for the first time using a newly deployed U.S. Patriot air defence system.
The Kinzhal missile — the name means "dagger" — can carry conventional or nuclear warheads up to 2,000 kilometres. Russia used the weapon in warfare for the first time in Ukraine last year and has only acknowledged firing the missiles on a few occasions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has frequently touted the Kinzhal as proof of world-beating Russian military hardware, capable of taking on NATO.
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City authorities in the Ukrainian capital said three people were wounded by falling debris.
"It was exceptional in its density — the maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time," said Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's city military administration, on the social media site Telegram.
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