The US denies that Russia destroyed a Patriot system

The Russian Ministry of Defense reiterates this Wednesday that it has destroyed a Patriot and five launchers for this system manufactured by the US

MOSCOW, May 17. (DPA/EP) –

The United States on Wednesday denied, along with Ukraine, that Russia had hit a US-made Patriot air defense system in a hypersonic missile attack on Tuesday against Kiev, the capital.

The Patriot system would have suffered slight damage in the attack, but according to defense sources reported to ‘The Washington Post’, it would not have been rendered inoperative, although the extent of the damage is still being assessed.

On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian Armed Forces had carried out a long-range, high-precision missile strike against deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as ammunition, weapons and equipment warehouses. military handed over by Western countries.

Given the statements of the spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yurii Ignat, who has also denied the destruction of the Patriot with the attack of a single supersonic missile ‘Kinzhal’, Russia has repeated the information this Wednesday in a statement, also adding that Five US-made launchers were destroyed in the attack, the TASS news agency has reported.