Moscow - The Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles were fired from Russian airspace to Ukraine over Crimea. Russia said it had used the hypersonic missiles to destroy an underground missile and ammunition storage site in western Ukraine close to the border with NATO member Romania. Kalibr cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea had also targeted the depot, according to the statement.

Russian analysts said the use of the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in Deliatyn, a village in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains, was the first combat use of such weapons in the world. The Ukrainian armed forces confirmed to AFP that the depot had been targeted but said they had "no information of the type of missile."

The Russian Defense Ministry said that it also used long-range precision weapons against other facilities in Ukraine on Saturday evening and early Sunday. Russian forces fired the Kalibr missiles from the Black Sea to target a plant in the northern city of Nizhyn used to repair armored vehicles, the ministry said.
Russia said Sunday it has again fired its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, destroying a fuel storage site in the country's south.

The Russian Defense Ministry also said it killed more than 100 members of Ukrainian special forces and "foreign mercenaries" when it targeted a training center in the town of Ovruch in northern Ukraine with sea-based missiles.

"Kinzhal aviation missile systems with hypersonic ballistic missiles destroyed a large storage site for fuels and lubricants of the Ukrainian armed forces near the settlement of Kostyantynivka in the Mykolaiv region," the Defense Ministry said.