Russia's defense ministry said on May 16 that it had destroyed a US-built Patriot surface-to-air missile defense system with a hypersonic Kinzhal missile in an overnight strike on Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Kyiv said the attack is likely to have heavily depleted the Russian arsenal of advanced weaponry, adding that many Kinzhal aero-ballistic missiles, of which Russia allegedly did not have many, were shot down. But a Ukrainian Air Force spokesman dodged the question when asked about the US-made Patriot air defence system that Russia claimed to have destroyed.

Yurii Inhat, the spokesperson, later added that the different components of a Patriot system is usually located in various positions across an relatively extended area, therefore it is highly unlikely that a single missile could destroy an entire Patriot system.

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