Ukraine boasts of developing ‘flawless’ new weapon tested in Crimea

The super missile was used on a military warehouse in annexed Crimea (Picture: GUR.ua/e2w)

Ukraine has boasted of developing a ‘new, completely modern’ weapon that has already been tested in an attack on annexed Crimea.

Footage shared by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR) last week showed an explosion at a Russian S-400 missile complex near the village of Olenivka, in the Tarkhankut peninsula.

Initial speculation was that the army had used a British or French supplied Storm Shadow missile with pinpoint accuracy to level the warehouse.

But Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, told Ukrainske Radio about the sophisticated missile.

‘The missile was a new one, absolutely modern,’ he added, praising the ‘flawless performance’.

At the same time, Ukrainian TV stressed there is ‘no clarification of whether it is an absolutely new missile or a modified one’.

‌One suspicion is that the low-flying, subsonic Neptune anti-ship missile – which famously sank the Moskva flagship of Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea Fleet last year – has been adapted.

Further details of this avant-garde missile have not been disclosed, but it appears designed to hit ground targets.

In the past, Ukraine has subtly suggested the potential deployment of novel weaponry capable of executing long-range strikes in Crimea.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia’s entire S-400 air defence system was wiped out.

It is understood the system could strike targets in air, on land, and at sea, and had the ability to hit aerial targets up to 250 miles away.  

‘As a result of the explosion, the installation itself, the missiles and personnel installed on it were completely destroyed,’ said Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko.

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The weapon wiped out a Russian military warehouse.