Russia tests hypersonic missiles in fresh barrage against military/infrastructure

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Russia launches six hypersonic missiles in massive barrage against Ukraine

Russia launched six hypersonic missiles able to evade air defences in the early hours of Thursday morning as it unleashed its largest missile barrage against Ukraine in three weeks.

Critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions had been hit, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said and at least six people were killed in a missile strike on a residential area in the western Lviv region, 440 miles (700km) from the frontline, according to emergency services. Three buildings were destroyed by fire after the strike and rescue workers were combing through rubble looking for more possible victims.

Ukrainian officials said Moscow had fired six of its Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, an unprecedented number, which Ukraine has no way of shooting down. Russia is believed to have only a few dozen of the missiles, which the president, Vladimir Putin, regularly touts in speeches as a weapon for which Nato has no answer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ikes-attacks-hit-kyiv-power-out-odesa-kharkiv




Ukraine war: Russia fires hypersonic missiles in new barrage

At least of nine people have died in a new wave of strikes across Ukraine in which Russia used powerful weapons, including rare hypersonic missiles.

Russia had reportedly not fired Kinzhal hypersonic missiles - which can evade air defences - since the early months of the conflict.

The latest barrage was the most severe to hit Ukraine for weeks.

It cut power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - Europe's biggest - although it was later restored.

On Thursday Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said: "High-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system, hit key elements of Ukraine's military infrastructure."

It was the biggest day of Russian strikes on Ukraine since the end of January,

The Ukrainian military claimed it had successfully shot down 34 cruise missiles and four Iranian-made Shahed drones.

But it also said it had been unable to intercept the six Kinzhal ballistic missiles - nor was it able to destroy older weapons, such as Kh-22 anti-ship missiles and S-300 anti-aircraft missiles.

"This was a major attack and for the first time with so many different types of missiles," the Reuters news agency quoted a Ukrainian air force spokesperson as saying. "It was like never before."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64903202

The US-led coup was the worst thing possible for Ukraine's future.

NATO's greed for expansion has brought this about- and pouring more weaponry into Ukraine will not redeem it.

 

[moon]

Russia’s massive retaliatory strike on Ukrainian military sites

Russian forces delivered a massive retaliatory strike on key Ukrainian military sites with precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, in response to Kiev’s terror attacks in the Bryansk Region, Konashenkov reported.

"In response to the terror attacks carried out by the Kiev regime in the Bryansk Region on March 2, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive retaliatory strike. Long-range air-, sea-and ground-based high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, hit key Ukrainian military infrastructure sites, enterprises of the military-industrial complex and related energy facilities," the spokesman said.

The goal of the strike was achieved and all the designated targets were struck, the general stressed.

Russia’s massive retaliatory strike disrupted the deployment of reserves and the railway carriages of foreign-made weapons for the Ukrainian military, Konashenkov reported.

https://tass.com/politics/1586597

The West reports that the West is winning- the Russians report that the Russians are winning.
We'd be wrong to simply ignore either reports.

Meanwhile, it appears that the fat lady hasn't even got her corset on yet, let alone sung.

 

[goat]

The US-led coup was the worst thing possible for Ukraine's future.

NATO's greed for expansion has brought this about- and pouring more weaponry into Ukraine will not redeem it.

Russians are working around the clock to stock up on the hypersonic Kinzhal ballistic missiles that not even the US can shoot down.
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From the interweb.
How fast is the Kinzhal missile?
It has a claimed range of more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi), Mach 12 speed (2.5 mi/s), and an ability to perform evasive maneuvers at every stage of its flight. It can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads and can be launched from Tu-22M3 bombers or MiG-31K interceptors.
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The US and nato are fucked.

 

[Walt]

Critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions had been hit, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said and at least six people were killed in a missile strike on a residential area in the western Lviv region, 440 miles (700km) from the frontline, according to emergency services. Three buildings were destroyed by fire after the strike and rescue workers were combing through rubble looking for more possible victims.

Even your own link says that Russia once again targeted civilians.

 

[moon]

Even your own link says that Russia once again targeted civilians.

Yes, The West says they do, the Russians say they don't. The Russians say that the Zelenskies targeted Russian civilians in a terrorist attack, the Zelenskies say it wasn't them.

Russian forces delivered a massive retaliatory strike on key Ukrainian military sites with precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, in response to Kiev’s terror attacks in the Bryansk Region, Konashenkov reported.

 

[saltydancin]

Even your own link says that Russia once again targeted civilians.

Just as Russia's Orthodox Church rootin' tootin' Putin targeting civilians of Europe in the extermination of Ukraine being the breadbasket of the continent in further extermination.....