Russia has used hyper-sounding missiles in Ukraine, according to US officials

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“The United States was able to track the launch of these missiles in real time,” sources said. Washington believes that the aim of launching the hyper-rocket missiles was to test these weapons and at the same time show the West that Russia has such potential.

Russia Ministry of defence announced on Saturday that “Kizal” had destroyed an ammunition depot with hypersonic missiles the previous day Ukraine in the west, in the village of Delatin in the Ivanofrankivsk region. CNN states that it is not in a position to verify this specific information.

Meanwhile, the representative of the Ukrainian Air Force Yuri Ignat has assured the AFP that the ammunition depot in Delatin was indeed hit, but stated that he has no information about the type of missile.

Russia has such missiles, the president said Vladimir Putin announced in 2018, calling them an “ideal weapon.” New tests of such missiles during the exercise were reported by the Kremlin in February, a few days before the invasion of Ukraine.

Hyper rockets fly at a speed at least five times the speed of sound. Unlike ballistic missiles, they travel on a low trajectory and can change direction in flight, making them difficult to intercept.

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