00:19Two, maybe three. That's all it took.
00:23Two or three Russian Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles punched straight through Kyiv's air defenses tonight.
00:32And one of the most advanced interceptor systems on the planet couldn't stop them.
00:37Russia launched a massive coordinated assault on Ukraine tonight.
00:4270 missiles, 611 drones, over 680 aerial assets in total screaming toward Ukrainian cities simultaneously.
00:52Kyiv alone was targeted by more than 60 missiles in a single night.
00:57Ukraine's air defenses performed remarkably overall, taking down or suppressing over 630 of those threats.
01:06But then came the Zircons. The Zircon is in a different category.
01:11Flying at reportedly Mach 8 to Mach 9, that's nearly 7,000 miles per hour, it gives air defense systems
01:18almost no reaction time.
01:20And tonight, that speed advantage showed.
01:24Two to three Zircons made it through, impacted inside Kyiv.
01:29But here's what made it worse and more visible.
01:32A Patriot interceptor, one of America's most sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, was caught on camera failing.
01:40It missed its target, lost control, and crashed back down into the city it was trying to protect.
01:47The very system meant to be Kyiv's shield became part of the damage.
01:52The consequences across Ukraine tonight were devastating.
01:56In Kyiv, four people killed, 28 injured.
02:00The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the most sacred Orthodox Christian monasteries on Earth, was
02:09set on fire.
02:10Crews battled flames under its domes and towers.
02:13In Kharkiv, Russia struck twice.
02:17First hitting an industrial site, then striking the firefighters responding to that fire.
02:22Five dead, nine injured.
02:25Dnipro's railway station, a college, industrial zones all hit.
02:30Tonight exposed something Ukraine's leadership has been warning about for months.
02:35Even with patriots, even with the best Western air defense money can buy, hypersonic threats like the Zircon operate in
02:44a window that current systems struggle to close.
02:47President Zelensky called for more systems.
02:50Prime Minister Sviridenko called it barbaric and demanded the world respond.
02:55The question isn't whether Ukraine's air defense is good.
02:59The question is whether anything stops a Zircon.
03:02Tonight, over Kyiv, the answer appeared to be, not yet.
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