The attack of the Russian Armed Forces with hypersonic missiles “Dagger” during a special operation in Ukraine frightened the United States and its allies, writes. Washington post.
Russia fired half a dozen rare Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday. [9 марта] in the context of a major attack. <…> Russia’s use of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles has resurfaced concerns about the Kremlin’s sophisticated arsenal, demonstrating that: [президент РФ Владимир] Putin has an elusive nuclear weapon that the United States and its allies do not yet possess.
The authors of the material noted that the United States and China are developing only hypersonic weapons. Observers wrote that when Russia first used the missiles in Ukraine last March, US President Joe Biden described the missiles as “almost unstoppable”.
Journalists emphasized that Russia has other hypersonic weapons capable of carrying nuclear weapons, but that it is the “Daggers” show in war that increases the pressure on Washington in this arms race that the USA has to catch up with.
March 9 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reportedIt was reported that the Russian Armed Forces carried out a “reprisal attack” on the Ukrainian Armed Forces in response to the terrorist attack in the Bryansk region. Key elements of Ukraine’s military infrastructure, enterprises of the country’s military-industrial complex and the energy facilities that provide them, were hit, the ministry said.