MiG-31 multirole fighter with Kinzhal hypersonic missileMOSCOW, 22 Mar. The hypersonic weapon, the Kinzhal missile, first used by Russia in a special military operation in Ukraine, poses an unsolvable problem for the West. Columnist Gerhard Hegman expressed this opinion in an article for the German edition of Die Welt. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that a storage of warheads for Ukrainian tactical missile systems «Tochka-U» was destroyed by a hypersonic missile «Dagger» in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, as well as large fuel depots in the Mykolaiv region. Military experts, the article says, view Russia's use of the Kinzhal as a warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin to NATO. The North Atlantic bloc, and in particular its European members, are aware of the effectiveness of hypersonic weapons, against which they have no effective systems to counter them. «Dagger» can fly at ten times the speed of sound. In this regard, the time for a reaction after its identification is extremely short. Therefore, the missile is considered practically invulnerable to Western anti-aircraft systems, Hegman concludes. in response to the requests of the republics of Donbass and after the appeal of the deputies of the State Duma, he signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR. Early on the morning of February 24, Russia launched a military special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. ;>
