More than a day after a Russian hypersonic missile hit Kiev’s Patriot air defense unit, after the video of the strike was made public, even after US officials put out the word that the Patriot had been hit, Ukraine’s National News Agency, Ukrinform, featured a lead article, “The night of downed Kinzhals,” explaining that nothing was hit, all the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were destroyed, and only some poor animals in Kiev’s zoo were scared.
Such has become standard operating procedure in Kiev these days. However, that was just the beginning. The article went to the other side of Alice’s looking glass. Not only did the hypersonic missiles not do any damage, but the weapons “that Russian propagandists have been scaring the whole world with for years” are impotent. Russia claims that the Patriot system was knocked out. “But who would believe this? Only the Russian plebs.” The “world has also seen that to be afraid… of such weapons is to disrespect yourself.”
Ukrinform quotes various authorities, ending with one Sergiy Fursa, who explains that the attack was a complete disgrace for the Russian army. “The question of which technologies are stronger and whether Russian weapons are capable of competing with American systems has been put to rest. So if anyone in the Western world was still afraid of Russian weapons, now they should finally realize that there is nothing to be afraid of. And if anyone in the United States still doubted whether to give Ukraine the latest weapons, they have also received an answer.”
