Kyiv Rejects Russian Claims That Hypersonic Missile Destroyed US Patriot Battery

A Russian Air Force MiG-31K jet carries a high-precision hypersonic aero-ballistic missile Kh-47M2 Kinzhal during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2018. Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo

Ukrainian officials have denied Russian claims that a U.S.-supplied Patriot air-defense system was destroyed in Kyiv by a Kinzhal-type hypersonic missile.

“Don’t worry about the fate of the Patriot [system],” Yuriy Ihnat, a Ukrainian Air Force spokesman, said in televised comments on May 17.