Today, Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk confirmed that on the night of May 4, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Russian Kh-47 Kinzhal hypersonic missile.. This happened for the first time, the Patriot air defense system destroyed the target. Speaker of the Supreme Council Yuri Ignat, who denied the fact of shooting down yesterday, already today called it a slap in the face for the aggressor country, because they said that this missile has no analogues in the world.

X-47 - aeroballistic missile. Its carrier is the MiG-31K aircraft.. The occupiers also call it the air-based Iskander.

" Of course, there is now burning behind the curb. Well, it’s already on fire, probably not the first day, because this is actually a slap in the face of Russia. They said that the Patriot is an obsolete American weapon, it can’t do anything, and “Russian weapons are the best in the world,” and so on,” Ignat said during the telethon.

According to the military, on the night of May 4, the Russian MiG-31K took off from the Savasleyka airfield..

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" And it was worked out by the Patriot division,"

Ignat stressed that Ukraine needs more Patriot air defense systems. According to him, the threat of the use of aeroballistics exists throughout the country, especially in the eastern direction..

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Recall, yesterday, Defense Express reported that on the night of May 4, in the sky over Kiev, the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the first time successfully intercepted the Russian Kh-47 hypersonic missile. Fragments of the downed "