On December 4, 2024, CGTNEurope posted on its YouTube channel footage from a hypersonic missile test conducted over the Mediterranean Sea by Russia, during a military drill.
Narrator: "This is the moment that Russia fired hypersonic missiles in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of Russian navy drills. The crews of the frigates fired Zircon hypersonic anti-ship missiles, while a Russian submarine launched a Kalibr cruise missile, another weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the ministry said as tensions increase with the West."