Ukraine shoots down six ’unstoppable’ hypersonic missiles as Russia hits Kyiv

Ukraine shoots down six ’unstoppable’ hypersonic missiles as Russia hits Kyiv | Russia launched a brutal drone and missile attack on Ukraine ’s capital early this morning, just hours after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be returning from a European tour with a restocked weapons arsenal. Ukraine claimed its robust air defence system, comprised of Soviet-era and Western-supplied platforms, managed to successfully shoot down 18 of Moscow’s missiles, six of which were reportedly hypersonic ’Kinzhal’ missiles which Vladimir Putin once boasted were ’unstoppable’. But the Russian Defence Ministry in turn claimed one of its missiles had successfully destroyed a US-designed and supplied Patriot air defence system - a feat amounting to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of state-of-the-art technology that could leave the Ukrainian capital vulnerable to further attacks. The claim is yet to be confirmed, though a grainy security camera video circul