The problem with that assumption is that the debris from shot down ‘hypersonic missiles’ isn’t necessarily matching the Khinzal hypersonic missiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal#Russo-Ukrainian_War
Both sides have been found to be using propaganda in this fight. I would question *anything* said about the war until otherwise verified.
I actually get you. That the shot down Russian missiles were not really Putin’s much vaunted hypersonics. We shall see.
Russians cannot buy the Western/Asian electronics they need to manufacture and refine their hypersonic missiles. Russians can make their own 90nm processors and nothing better. Russia is a technology parasite nation. They should stick to being the gas fill up station to Europe and the world. But this was not good enough for the stupid, cancerous Tsar Putin. Putin likes war and conquest, same as the Russian Tsars of old.
“Both sides have been found to be using propaganda in this fight.”
I have a Ukrainian friend (American now) that said the same - who knows what or who to believe. Although she said that lots of her friends back home fled the country. Some leaving their husbands behind who were not allowed to leave due to needing to be available to serve in the war if necessary.