Pentagon confirms Ukraine downs Russian Kinzhal with Patriot 

This was reported by Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder on Tuesday, May 9, the CNN channel informs.

"I can confirm that they did down a Russian missile by employing the Patriot missile defense system. As you know that system is part of a broader range of air defense capabilities that the United States and the international community have provided to Ukraine,"  he said. 

He added that the United States and its partners will continue to "rush ground-based air defense capabilities and munitions to help Ukraine control its sovereign skies and to help Ukraine defend its citizens from Russia."

The Russian side called Kinzhal a hypersonic missile, and after it was shot down in Ukraine, experts suggested that it is actually a ballistic missile that can fly at hypersonic speed.

• On May 6, the commander of the AFU Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk, announced that the Ukrainian military shot down the Russian Kinzhal missile with the help of the Patriot system. The US unofficially confirmed it later.