Danny Pronk, security researcher at the Clingendael Institute said earlier today that he probably eight that they were hypersonic missiles. “We know that just before the war MiG-31 fighter jets were stationed in the enclave of Kaliningrad, equipped with these Kinzjal missiles (“kinzjal” means “dagger”). From there, you can easily reach the weapons depot in Western Ukraine. hit, so in terms of range it can,” he said.
According to him, the war in Ukraine is an opportunity for the Russians to test the new weapons in practice. “Do they really work as planned, in a war? We know that Russia has done the same in Syria: there they used all kinds of new weapons for the first time.”
Defense expert Patrick Bolder of the The Hague Center for Strategic Studies questions the Russians’ claim. If the hypersonic missiles were indeed used, that could also be a sign that Russia is running out of precision weapons stock, he said.
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