{"id":47018,"date":"2026-03-07T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/russia-attacks-kyiv-with-zircon-hypersonic-missiles-likely-with-a-cluster-warhead\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:11:21","slug":"russia-attacks-kyiv-with-zircon-hypersonic-missiles-likely-with-a-cluster-warhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/russia-attacks-kyiv-with-zircon-hypersonic-missiles-likely-with-a-cluster-warhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacks Kyiv with Zircon hypersonic missiles, likely with a cluster warhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian army is striking the capital with ballistic weapons, launching Zircon-type missiles from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. Monitoring channels warned of the enemy&#039;s use of cluster munitions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F03%2F06%2F1772841079-3482-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Russia attacks Kyiv with Zircon hypersonic missiles, likely with a cluster warhead\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Russian Armed Forces are striking the capital with ballistic weapons, launching &quot;Zircon&quot; missiles from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded high-speed targets moving through Mykolaiv region in the direction of Kyiv region. This is reported by UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The enemy is striking with ballistic missiles. Stay in safe places!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; wrote Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, on his Telegram channel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Monitors report high-speed targets moving at about 7000 km\/h. A series of powerful explosions rocked Kyiv and the region, and monitoring channels warned of the enemy&#039;s use of cluster munitions, which significantly increases the threat to the civilian population.<\/p>\n<h2>Direction of strike and threat to settlements in the region<\/h2>\n<p>The main ballistic strike was aimed at Kyiv, but the threat spread to Bila Tserkva, Fastiv, Makariv, and Nalyvaikivka. The high speed of &quot;Zircons&quot; leaves little time to take cover, as only a few minutes pass from launch to impact. Air defense forces are working in an enhanced mode, trying to intercept missiles on approach to residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of various districts of the capital report loud sounds characteristic of air defense operations and heavy weapon impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, air defense forces have destroyed over 14,000 aerial targets24.02.26, 19:21 \u2022 4295 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian army is striking the capital with ballistic weapons, launching Zircon-type missiles from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. Monitoring channels warned of the enemy&#039;s use of cluster munitions. The Russian Armed Forces are striking the capital with ballistic weapons, launching &quot;Zircon&quot; missiles from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. The Air Force of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}