* Moscow claims the 'Kinzhal'- or Dagger - missile is 'unstoppable' by current Western defensive weapons
* The weapon, which has a range of 1,250 miles, is nuclear capable. The Friday attack was a conventional strike
* Vladimir Putin has termed the missile 'an ideal weapon' that flies at 10 times the speed of sound
* The missile was one of an array of new weapons Putin unveiled in his state-of-the-nation address in 2018
* Russia first used the weapon during its military campaign in Syria in 2016 to support the Assad regime
Russia unleashed its 'unstoppable' Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine, the defence ministry said today, destroying a weapons storage site in the country's west on Friday.
Russia has never before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti said it was the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons during the conflict in pro-Western Ukraine.
Moscow claims the 'Kinzhal'- or Dagger - is 'unstoppable' by current Western weapons.
The missile, which has a range of 1,250 miles, is nuclear capable. This was a conventional strike.
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Russia Uses Hypersonic Missiles For The First Time In Strike On Ukraine Arms Depot
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