Your source is from May 5th. Subsequent Kinzhals were confirmed shot down much more recently. > On May 4, 2023, Ukraine used a U.S.-supplied Patriot battery to

Your source is from May 5th. Subsequent Kinzhals were confirmed shot down much more recently. > On May 4, 2023, Ukraine used a U.S.-supplied Patriot battery to down a Russian Kinzhal missile, which Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced in 2018 was a “hypersonic” weapon that could overcome all existing air defense systems. Russia’s state news agency tried to maintain this claim by arguing that the shootdown was a fake report. Yet just 12 days afterward, Ukraine shot down six Kinzhals [1] that Russia fired in an assault on Kyiv. Both shootdowns have been verified by U.S. government sources.[2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/world/europe/ukraine-russia-hypersonic-kinzhal-patriot.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/world/europe/ukraine-russ... [2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2023/05/23/ukraine-and-the-kinzhal-dont-believe-the-hypersonic-hype/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2023/05/23/u...