The Ukrainian Air Force stated that three more Kinzhal ballistic missiles were aimed towards locations in the country's west. Kinzhals are one of Russia's most sophisticated conventional weapons.
"The enemy has increased its use of virtually the entire spectrum of its weapons to strike Ukrainian cities in the last and this week." According to a statement issued by the Ukrainian military. "In particular, he increased the number of attacks by sea-, air-, and land-based cruise and ballistic missiles."
According to officials, a Russian missile struck the home of an 8-year-old kid in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk area.
"Doctors did everything possible, but the child's life could not be saved," Svitlana Onyshchuk, the regional military administration's leader, stated.
The Ukrainian Air Force had issued a warning shortly before 10 a.m. local time that at least one Kinzhal hypersonic missile had been launched from a MIG-31 fighter jet and was aimed at Kiev. The white trail of an air defense missile could be seen racing through the sky almost as soon as the air-raid siren sounded.
Hypersonic weapons have the ability to move at least five times the speed of sound — more than a mile per second — and maneuver to avoid defenses. The Kinzhal satisfies the criterion, according to US sources, but some Western analysts are skeptical of its agility.
According to Serhiy Popko, the chief of the Kyiv regional military administration, the facility will be a children's hospital. He stated in a statement that no immediate information on victims or destruction was available. The specifics could not be independently verified right away.
The morning assault on the capital — with air-raid sirens blasting as people walked to work on a sunny summer day, only to dash into train stations and basement shelters for cover — came after a brief period of relative calm in Kyiv, as Russian forces directed their most expensive missiles at less well-defended areas.
Ukraine's complicated air-defense network has improved its ability to intercept Russian missile and drone threats. Even successful interceptions, however, pose a risk: falling debris has killed numerous people and caused significant damage.
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