Sam Hancock – The Independent March 19, 2022
Russia has claimed it used a hypersonic missile to strike a large weapons depot in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region.
It marks the first time a Kinzhal – or ‘Dagger’ – missile has been deployed since Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency.
Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia’s defence ministry, said the “unstoppable” weapon was deployed on Friday and destroyed an underground warehouse storing ammunition for Ukrainian troops in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Kinzhal missiles are thought to have a range of around 1,250 miles.
In December, Putin said his country was the global leader in hypersonic missiles, whose speed, manoeuvrability and altitude make them difficult to track and intercept – or “invincible” – to use the Russian president’s own words
Mr Konashenkov said Russia had also destroyed military radio and reconnaissance centres near the Ukrainian port city of Odessa using the Bastion coastal missile system, Interfax news agency reported.
It is not yet known if the strikes caused any casualties, and The Independent has been unable to verify the claims made by the Russian spokesman.
“The Kinzhal aviation missile system, with hypersonic aero-ballistic missiles, destroyed a large underground ammunition depot in the Ivano-Frankivsk region,” he told a briefing
Hypersonic weapons are largely considered the next generation of arms due to the fact they can reach more than five times the speed of sound and the challenge they pose to anti-missile defence systems.
Putin previously said that his country only began to create them “in response to the US deployment of a strategic missile defence system”.
Kinzhal missiles were part of an array of weapons announced by Russia in 2018. At the time of the unveiling, Putin said of the West: “They need to take account of a new reality and understand … [this] is not a bluff.”
The use of the weapons in Ukraine, however, is the latest sign that Moscow’s war is not going to plan as forces become increasingly desperate amid reports of military struggles and a fierce Ukrainian resistance.
Russia expanded its missile strikes to Lviv in the west of the country on Friday, launching an early morning attack on the city, according to the city’s mayor.
Heading into the weekend, there was also reported heavy shelling in the encircled cities of Mariupol, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Sumy.
However, British intelligence continued to suggest Putin’s troops made “minimal progress” this week after being “stalled on all fronts” for a matter of days.
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Russia has been forced to change its operational approach and is now pursuing a strategy of attrition.— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) March 19, 2022
“The Kremlin has so far failed to achieve its original objectives,” the UK’s Ministry of Defence said in a tweet on Friday night.
It added Russia was being forced to change its operational approach “and is now pursuing a strategy of attrition”, which could explain the sudden deployment of these missiles.
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(satan?)will make their hearts hardened .
but Putin you have to nuke Virginia
now because they will develope
further weapons to strike russia. .
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later it will be to late as long the
rothschild mafia pest is multiplying .
they are greedy for your siberian riches
since centuries .
‘“The Kremlin has so far failed to achieve its original objectives,” the UK’s Ministry of Defence said in a tweet on Friday night.
It added Russia was being forced to change its operational approach “and is now pursuing a strategy of attrition”, which could explain the sudden deployment of these missiles.’
I am sick of this Game.
And have been sick of The ‘Independent’, which was genuinely founded as a non-left/right newspaper, from the day it was inevitably taken over by Left Wing ideologues and became identical in its Woke Politics to The Guardian.
Doesn’t the Western Lie Machine ( via its MSM ) remember it was accusing Russia of deliberately targeting civilians from Day One of the Military Operation?
Which IS a ‘strategy of attrition.’
So by saying that Russia is NOW pursuing a strategy of attrition, the Western Lie Machine is admitting that it was lying before when it said Russia was pursuing a strategy of attrition.
It doesn’t matter, of course.
The Western Establishment doesn’t have to be careful and cunning in its propaganda.
The entire Western political and media class don’t have to be convincing in their lies, don’t have to be worried about being caught out in their obvious contradictions.
In 1966, the high standard of State Education in Britain was deliberately wrecked by the imposition of the Socialist Comprehensive System (echoed in the USA), it was kept in place by all subsequent ‘Conservative’ Governments, and the masses are now incapable of resisting the most crude and obvious forms of mind control manipulation, and this goes for the ‘educated’ middle class readers of The Guardian, Independent and The Telegraph style broadsheets as much – if not more – than the readers of tabloids like The Sun and The Mirror.
The old part of me feels like a traitor in this, but of course I am not.
I voted for Brexit and even voted Conservative at the last Election – but of course the Conservatives’ slogan at their last Conference actually was ‘Build Back Better’.
Britain is run by ideological Left Wing traitors and there is now nothing to be patriotic to if you are British.
Even being a Briton who does not hate Britain now puts you in the line of being cancelled, as Laurence Fox was.
The British Public have reached the Orwellian stage of stupidity and gullibility- ‘The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.’
Who cares? Soviet Russia is governed/dominated by a cabal of ‘Jewish Oligarchs’ just like the ‘West’ is..’Jews with different names are still the same’….its called the Marxist dialectic, where both ‘sides’ are covertly directed by the same Jewish cabal to create the conditions to advance their anti-white Techno-Communist agenda for the world…
The use of Kinzhal is probably a response to the deployment of Western supplied anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems. It is also a warning that the system is operational and – its performance will no doubt have been carefully observed – effective.
The suggestion by Western media that it is a sign of ‘desperation’ is nonsense. If the Russians simply wanted to flatten anywhere regardless of casualties, they could do so quite easily with conventional artillery.
@Guy, Fox is a puppet who “caught Covid” just before the hoax was paused, and treated the non-existent disease with Ivermectin; A shill. As for Ukraine, any buildings being demolished will be replaced by shiny new tower blocks, with the requisite technology for NWO smart cities. Ukraine will be a test bed for the NWO’s twisted vision of the future. Little Zelensky and Little Putin both know this.
OMG ??? The above comments has me totally confused ?? Have read yesterday from unnamed respected British intelligence sources that Russian Army has unconditionally capitulated to the Ukrainian army & today I read that , Russia fires ‘unstoppable’ hypersonic missiles at Ukraine for first time ‘to destroy weapons depot’ How is it possible after the capitulation of Russian army ??
Please The Independent & The Guardian ? Can you enlighten me how was it possible for Russian army to strike Ukraine Weapons Depot after their capitulation ???
” is the latest sign that Moscow’s war is not going to plan as forces become increasingly desperate amid reports of military struggles and a fierce Ukrainian resistance.”
Bullsh!t…. Countries always,,, ALWAYS,,, try to use new systems in actual combat situations if given the opportunity.
The fact that pictures from previous conflicts,,, explosions from China had to be used to pretend that victory will soon be Ukraine’s and that Ukraine might dictate peace terms in Moscow are laughable.
Truth in the mockingbird media is unpossible…
“The Kremlin has so far failed to achieve its original objectives,” the UK’s Ministry of Defenase said in a tweet on Friday night”.
What absolute nonsense. Russia is achieving all of it’s objectives, paying special attention to saving civilian lives. The UK’s Ministry of Defense has obviously avoided mentioning that some 60.000 Ukrainian troops have been surrounded in the Donbass.
I can think of one good reason to use a hypersonic missile on a NATO training base with 2,000 personel, including dozens of high ranking officers from UK and US.
1. using a hypersonic missile that can’t be shot down by air defense on a high value target.
2. To kill as many of the foreign fighters before they could get out of the lethal blast zone. The reaction time to flee the target zone is greatly diminshed. Basically you hear the air raid siren and stand up out of bed only to get blown to bits.
ASB Military News (PRO)
https://gab.com/asbmilitary
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$400 million worth of Western supplied weaponry destroyed in a single russian strike on the military base near Lvov — radio intercepted comms suggest that 267 foreign mercenaries have been killed in the strike. 50 year old Peter from Austria who fought alongside the “international legion of Ukraine” said that 800 to 1000 foreign mercenaries were present during the strike. Around 400 mercenaries were evacuated to Poland, many of whom have suffered severe burns & torn limbs from the Kalibr strike. There’s a high number of missing individuals still under the rubble which includes a high number of Americans, Poles and Romanians. Former NATO officers are Amongst the dead.
BUILD BACK BETTER
yes back to the 1930s when the banks caused the great depression
and starved people to death in the UK and USA
But Germany opted out of the jewbankers system and gave the people security and prosperity
the jews did not like that so Germany the hub of freedom
had to be destroyed
Never mind the theatre. By Christmas, you won’t be able to afford petrol/gas for your car. Food prices will go crazy, and food may well be rationed due to shortages, farmers will have to pay a fortune for any available fertilisers, and all these factors will be passed on to you. Welcome to phase 2 of the great reset useless eaters. You may well end up as useless starvers.
@ NICO X
you are mistaken . russia is run by
FSB +Putin is one of them + if th
oligarchs not follow in line they
land in siberia like chodokovsky.
@ YUKON JACK
BETTER THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE :
VIRGINIA + RATSCHILDS DIAMOND
LONDON CITY !
‘Greg on March 19, 2022 at 10:40 pm
@Guy, Fox is a puppet who “caught Covid” just before the hoax was paused’
I do not doubt that for a millisecond, Greg – us Brits in the UK who grew up in the 1970s also have fond memories of a Fox Puppet that appeared regularly on the T.V. –
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Basil-Brush-Audiobook/B004EM0IH0?ipRedirectOverride=true&source_code=M2M30DFT1Bk13010142102TD&gclid=CjwKCAjwoduRBhA4EiwACL5RP9nzpXRwkDMcl5GM7fmxIUgIiW9lIDO9OgVmfEkT3cbkty8_koJIAxoCmvEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
@antiseptic…If you want to believe Communist propaganda that’s your business…I’ve already listed the names of the numerous ‘Russian’-Jewish Oligarchs who control the economy/industry/media of the Soviet State…Jews are all on the same team, no matter what ‘nation’ they control…setting up the goyim to get slaughtered..
First, they’re not un-stoppable at Mach 10. Lasers travel at Mach 874,000.
Second, there’s no such thing as SR-72 or TR-3B or prototypes of 6-th generation jet fighters armed with lasers.
It’s not just the speed, the Russians have built into their weapons the ability to alter direction at alarming speed.
Sure, a laser is quick, but the system below the laser is slow. When Putin says his weapons can’t be stopped, he’s being deadly serious.
The recent Russian cruise missile attack in Northern UKraine, they were launched some distance away in Russia. NATO didn’t have a clue until they destroyed the target.