Russia claims to have intercepted multiple UAVs in the Black Sea, Ukraine releases images of 'shot down' Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missile

More than 22 months after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict (February 2022), tensions on the ground have not decreased.

A building burns after a missile strike in the Podilskyi district of Kiev, Ukraine, January 2. (Source: Getty)

In two announcements early on January 6, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its air defense units shot down many missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a series of nighttime attacks on the Crimean Peninsula and the western Black Sea region.

According to the first announcement of the Russian Ministry of Defense posted on the Telegram channel, the air defense force intercepted 5 UAVs over the Black Sea at around 8:00 p.m. on January 5 (0:00 a.m. on January 6, Hanoi time).

The second announcement said that four Ukrainian guided missiles were intercepted and destroyed at 0:30 on January 6 (4:30 the same day Hanoi time) in the sky over Crimea.

Ukraine has recently stepped up attacks on Russian targets in and around Crimea. The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had shot down a total of 36 Ukrainian UAVs over Crimea on January 4.

In another development, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Service on January 5 released images of what it said was a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missile. On January 2, Kiev announced that the US-made Patriot air defense system had shot down the missile.

On its Telegram channel, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Service posted images showing a crane removing fragments of a missile from the ground.

“In Kiev, engineers neutralized the warhead of a Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missile,” the news release said.

However, the news agencies This claim could not be immediately verified.

Earlier, on January 2, Kiev confirmed that it had shot down 10 Kinzhal missiles used by Moscow in a large-scale wave of airstrikes targeting cities on Ukrainian territory, killing 6 people.

Kinzhal is part of an arsenal that Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared unstoppable because it can travel at speeds of up to Mach 10.

Source: https://baoquocte.vn/nga-tuyen-bo-chan-nhieu-uav-o-bien-den-ukraine-cong-khai-hinh-anh-ten-lua-dan-dao-sieu-vuot-am-kinzhal-bi-ban-ha-256407.html