"Historical Event": Air Force recognized that for the first time they knocked down the "Dagger" rocket

According to Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, the ballistic rocket was struck by Patriot SC. He greeted the Ukrainians, but asked not to disseminate such information prematurely. On the night of May 4, the defenders of Ukraine shot down the Russian winged rocket X-47 "Dagger", which was previously considered invulnerable. On May 6, the Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk officially recognized this in his Telegram.

According to him, at night, the Mig-31K fighter launched the X-47 "Dagger" from the territory of Russia, but the Ukrainian military was able to knock it from the Patriot Anti-aircraft missile system received from the United States. The Russians have repeatedly boasted that such ballistic missiles could not be affected by air defense systems or about, in addition, they allegedly do not pass electromagnetic radiation and radio waves, and therefore virtually invisible to radars.

"I congratulate the Ukrainian people with a historical event. Yes, we have knocked down" not analogue "dagger", "Mykola Oleshch reported. " "We don't have to run, as they say in Ukraine:" Before my father in hell ", in advance to publish information that can to use the enemy. "The commander added that the Air Force of Ukraine will notify detailed information about whipped objects, but at one time. He also asked the Ukrainians not to panic during shelling and to believe in air defense forces.

On May 5 The Armed Forces were intercepted over Kiev by the hypersonic missile of the Armed Forces "Dying". Photos of fragments of a allegedly beaten rocket were appeared on the network, which is different from the winged X-22 or ballistic "Iskander". "ballistic type". On the same day the speaker of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Yuriy Ignat denied the interception of the missile "Dagger". According to him, on May 4, air defense forces did not record the use of ballistic missiles.