“I don’t want to suggest that they may or may not conduct an offensive operation in the coming weeks,” he said. He also said that their capability to defend was “significantly enhanced from what they were just a year ago.” In an interview this week with Foreign Affairs magazine, Milley said he would not speculate on if or when it might come, but that with NATO assistance to help train and equip nine brigades’ worth of combined arms, armor and mechanized infantry, “the Ukrainians right now have the capability to attack.” Ukraine has not said when it might launch the counteroffensive, but it is widely anticipated this spring. Zaluzhnyi said he also briefed Milley “about the situation at the front and preparations” for Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for the ongoing American aid to Ukraine. In a Telegram post on Saturday, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, said he had thanked U.S. The Russian military says the air-launched ballistic missile has a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,250 miles) and flies at 10 times the speed of sound, making it hard to intercept. The Kinzhal is one of the latest and most advanced Russian weapons. Oleshchuk said the Kh-47 missile was launched by a MiG-31K aircraft from Russian territory and was shot down with a Patriot missile. “It happened during the night-time attack on May 4 in the skies of the Kyiv region.” “Yes, we shot down the ‘unique’ Kinzhal,” Oleshchuk wrote. It was also the first time Ukraine is known to have used the Patriot defense systems.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine’s air force claimed Saturday to have downed a Russian hypersonic missile over Kyiv using newly acquired American Patriot defense systems, the first known time the country has been able to intercept one of Moscow’s most modern missiles.Īir Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said in a Telegram post that the Kinzhal-type ballistic missile had been intercepted in an overnight attack on the Ukrainian capital earlier in the week.

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