The Pentagon believes that Ukraine shot down a Russian missile “Dagger”

But doubts about the veracity of shooting down an enemy missile are rejected by the Pentagon. This is reported by CNN.

The United States is confident in the veracity of Ukraine’s claims that a Russian hypersonic missile was shot down by the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of the US Patriot air defense and missile defense system.

American advisers did not participate in the interception – the task was independently completed by the Ukrainians, who were trained in Oklahoma.

This fact is an even bigger advantage for the Pentagon, an anonymous CNN source familiar with the situation told CNN.

It called it a “great return” on investments aimed at training Ukrainian military personnel.

Earlier, the commander of the Air Force of Ukraine, Mykola Oleschuk, announced the downing of the “Dagger” hypersonic missile.

According to him, this was done by the “Patriot” air defense complex.

“It happened during the night attack on May 4 in the sky of Kyiv region. The Kh-47 missile was launched by a MiG-31K from the territory of Russia,” Oleschuk said.