“According to Operator Dmitry, he and his colleagues did not know that day that Kiev was attacking the “dagger””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The name of the operator is not indicated, the Armed Forces reported only his name – Dmitry (he is in video with a half closed face).
“When the war began, I joined the army. I couldn’t even think that I, a simple programmer, will master the Patriot ZRK and gather the first “dagger” in the world, “he said.
In addition, according to the operator, he and his colleagues did not know that day that Kiev was attacking the “dagger”.
“At that moment, we saw on the screen that it was ballistics, but at first we thought it was just an” Iskander. ” Only when we found fragments, then we already learned that it was a “dagger”. Everyone rejoiced, everyone greeted each other. Russia said that the “dagger” could not be knocked down, but it turned out that everything could be knocked down and everything was gone … It was the first time in the world when they were knocked down a hypersonic ballistic missile, ”Operator Dmitry said.
Earlier, on May 6, 2023, the then commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk called the “historical event” that on May 4, the hypersonic rocket “dagger”, which, according to the Russian side, has no analogues in the world and cannot be killed.
Separately, the eccentrics indicated that this was done with the help of the American Patriot system.
The Russian Defense Ministry then stated that during the night rocket attack of Kiev on May 16, a high -precision stroke of the hypersonic complex “dagger” was affected by the Patriot anti -aircraft missile complex. ” Ukraine did not comment on this message, and in the United States stated that the damage to the system is minimal, it remains in working order.
On May 18, the Pentagon was officially confirmed that the Russian attack on Ukraine was damaged by the Patriot system, but it was already repaired – it was completely restored and works.
Russian military regularly from various weapons – UAVs, missiles, booths, RSSUs – attacked Ukrainian regions.
The Russian leadership denies that during a full -scale war, the Russian army causes purposeful strikes in the civilian infrastructure of cities and villages of Ukraine, killing civilian populations and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful.