Vladimir Putin has activated what's believed to be the world’s only bonafide hypersonic missile battery. It comes amid Russian losses on the field, and the U.S. decision to supply Ukraine with its most advanced anti-air defense Patriot missile system. Both may have played a role in the Kremlin's decision, after years of development and testing, to activate it for combat.
President Vladimir Putin sent a frigate to the Atlantic Ocean armed with new generation hypersonic cruise missiles on Wednesday, a signal to the West that Russia will not back down over the war in Ukraine.
c cargo shep has arrive there had to transport metal to russia. and moscow had a hypersonic missile test. the new zircon missile through over 600,000 miles to a target on russia s coast. and cnn correspondents are covering it from every angel. melissa bell is in kyiv where ukraine says the weapons it has already received from the united states and other western nations have been a great help but they need more. melissa. reporter: there has been more intense fighting in eastern ukraine, although kyiv is saying that the key town of severdonetsk has not fallen to the russians. but still kyiv is appealing for more help, more weaponry, because it says that the balance of pow over the feed and specifically that front lean wher