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MiG-31K at Khmeimim airbase photo of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Moscow. March 19 Interfax-AVN - The Russian Ministry of Defense has reported that during the operation in Ukraine, the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system, the Mig-31K, was used for the first time.
"On March 18, the Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse of missiles and aviation ammunition of Ukrainian troops in the village of Delyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.
"Kinzhal" - an aviation complex with a high-precision hypersonic aeroballistic missile. Created on the basis of the modernized long-range fighter-interceptor MiG-31 - MiG-31K. According to the Russian military, it is capable of hitting targets at a distance of more than 2,000 km, while being guaranteed to overcome all existing and developed air and missile defense systems.
Konashenkov said that the Russian military used the Bastion coastal anti-ship missile system to destroy Ukrainian electronic intelligence centers near Odessa.
"The Bastion coastal missile system destroyed the centers of radio and electronic intelligence of the Ukrainian armed forces in the settlements of Veliky Dalnik and Velikodolinskoye in the Odessa region," he said.
The Bastion complexes are deployed in all fleets of the Russian Navy. The flight range of the Onyx cruise missile of the Bastion complex is up to 500 km. "Bastion" is designed to destroy naval targets. For the first time, the Russian military used Bastion against ground targets in 2016 in Syria.
"On the night of March 19, Russian operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 69 military facilities in Ukraine," Konashenkov said.
According to him, Russian planes, helicopters and drones, in particular, destroyed four command posts, including a brigade command post in the village of Zabuyanye, four anti-aircraft missile systems, incl. three S-300s and one Buk-M1, one guidance and targeting radar, three multiple rocket launchers, 12 missile and artillery weapons depots, 43 military equipment concentration areas.
"The air defense systems of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air," an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"A total of 196 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,438 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 145 multiple rocket launchers, 556 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 1,237 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation," Konashenkov said. .
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine.
On March 1, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that "the grouping of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue to conduct a special military operation until the set goals are achieved."
Many countries have imposed sanctions against Russia.
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